Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 12
Then the father fell into a rage and said: ‘Oh, you lost man, you have spent the precious time and learnt nothing; are you not ashamed to appear before my eyes?
Who acts: father, you · What happens: fall, say, lose, spend, learn, not be · To what, where: rage, man, nothing, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fell | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 rage | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rage | det |
| 7 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 lost | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 lost | punct |
| 12 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 15 lost | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Oh | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 lost | nsubj |
| 15 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lost | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spent | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 spent | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 spent | aux |
| 20 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 lost | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 22 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 time | amod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spent | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 learnt | cc |
| 25 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 spent | conj |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 learnt | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 ashamed | punct |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 ashamed | cop |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 ashamed | nsubj |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 ashamed | advmod |
| 31 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fell | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 appear | mark |
| 33 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 ashamed | xcomp |
| 34 | before | before | ADP | _ | 36 eyes | case |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 36 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 appear | obl |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the father | then | into a rage result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into rage=Result | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the father not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lose | past | you | man | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | spend | present · perfect | you | time | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | learn | past | you not said here | nothing | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 6 | not is | present | you | ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | appear | to-infinitive | you not said here | my eyes | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eye=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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