Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 107

‘You fools!’ cried he, ‘what are you crying about?

Who acts: You · What happens: cry · To what, where: king

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
3	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 You	nmod:unmarked
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 You	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 You	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 crying	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 crying	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 crying	obj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 crying	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 crying	nsubj
13	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 cried	advcl
14	about	about	ADV	_	13 crying	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	You	king					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	cry speech: express	present · progressive	you					about property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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