Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 16
‘Bravo!’ said the ass; ‘upon my word, you make a famous noise; pray what is all this about?’
Who acts: you, my · What happens: say, make, pray, be, word · To what, where: ass, famous noise, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Bravo | bravo | INTJ | Number=Sing | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bravo | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ass | det |
| 7 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 word | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 word | nmod:poss |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 word | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 make | nsubj |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 noise | det |
| 17 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 noise | amod |
| 18 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 pray | punct |
| 20 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 make | conj |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 pray | obj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 this | cop |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 this | det:predet |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 what | nsubj |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 what | case |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the ass | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ass=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make | present | you | a famous noise | upon my word | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product | |||
| 3 | pray | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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