Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 6
At last he said: ‘Oh, you wretched beard-cleaner, you piebald fool, you hungry mouse-hunter, what can you be thinking of?
Who acts: fox, you · What happens: say, cleaner, fool, hunter, think · To what, where: last, hungry mouse hunter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 cleaner | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 cleaner | punct |
| 7 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 13 cleaner | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Oh | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 cleaner | nsubj |
| 10 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cleaner | amod |
| 11 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cleaner | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 beard | punct |
| 13 | cleaner | cleaner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fool | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 fool | nsubj |
| 16 | piebald | piebald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fool | amod |
| 17 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cleaner | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hunter | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 hunter | nsubj |
| 20 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hunter | amod |
| 21 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hunter | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 mouse | punct |
| 23 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cleaner | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 thinking | punct |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 thinking | obj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 thinking | aux |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 thinking | nsubj |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 thinking | aux |
| 29 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 hunter | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 thinking | obl |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | fox | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cleaner | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fool | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | hunter | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | think speech: other | can · progressive | you | hungry mouse hunter | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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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