Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 25

The doctor looked at the dish, had no idea what to say, and cried: ‘Ah, poor Crabb.’

Who acts: doctor · What happens: look, have, say, cry · To what, where: idea, poor Crabb · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Doctor Knowall. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctor), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 doctor	det
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 dish	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dish	det
6	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 idea	det
10	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 say	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 idea	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cried	cc
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 Crabb	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 Crabb	punct
19	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	21 poor	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Ah	punct
21	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Crabb	amod
22	Crabb	Crabb	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 cried	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 Crabb	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 Crabb	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	the doctor		at the dish	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dish=Theme
2	have	past	the doctor not said here	no idea		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the doctor not said here	no idea		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	cry speech: express	past	the doctor not said here	poor Crabb		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP 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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