Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 12

‘What is that to thee, you ugly imp?’ said the prince haughtily, and rode on.

Who acts: that, you, ugly imp · What happens: be, imp, say, ride on · To what, where: prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, you, ugly imp), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 said	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 What	cop
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 What	nsubj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 thee	case
6	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 What	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 imp	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 imp	nsubj
9	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 imp	amod
10	imp	imp	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 imp	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 imp	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prince	det
15	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	haughtily	haughtily	ADV	_	13 said	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rode	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rode	cc
19	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	19 rode	compound:prt
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that		to thee	tree rules
2	imp		you			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	ugly imp	the prince	haughtily property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic
4	ride on	past	ugly imp not said here			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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