Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 129

Then said he: ‘After all it is a pity,--for so handsome a man.’

Who acts: other, ground, man · What happens: say, be · To what, where: pity · 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 (other, ground, 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	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 pity	punct
6	After	after	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 pity	obl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pity	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 pity	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pity	det
11	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 handsome	punct
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 handsome	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 handsome	case
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 handsome	advmod
16	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pity	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 handsome	nsubj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 pity	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 pity	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	other		then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	ground	a pity	after all	tree rules
3	be		a man			tree rules

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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