Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 113
‘Oh,’ said he, ‘what long nails you have!
Who acts: fire, you · What happens: say, nail, have · To what, where: long nails · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fire, 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nails | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 nails | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 nails | nsubj |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nails | amod |
| 11 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 nails | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | fire | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | nail | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | have | present | you | long nails not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Patient |
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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