Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 34
Then the fellow in the stove thought that the doctor meant him, and full of terror, sprang out, crying: ‘That man knows everything!’
Who acts: fellow, doctor, man · What happens: think, mean, spring out, cry, know · To what, where: fellow, everything · 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 (fellow, doctor, man), 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 | 7 thought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fellow | det |
| 3 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 stove | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stove | det |
| 6 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fellow | nmod |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 meant | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 doctor | det |
| 10 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 meant | nsubj |
| 11 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 meant | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 full | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 full | cc |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thought | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 terror | case |
| 17 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 full | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sprang | punct |
| 19 | sprang | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 thought | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 sprang | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 crying | punct |
| 22 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 sprang | conj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 knows | punct |
| 24 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 knows | punct |
| 25 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 man | det |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 knows | nsubj |
| 27 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | parataxis |
| 28 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 27 knows | obj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 knows | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the fellow in the stove | then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | past | the doctor | fellow | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 3 | spring out | gerund | the fellow in the stove not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | the fellow in the stove not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | know | present | that man | everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus |
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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