Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 140
‘Hullo!’ cried he, ‘another half belongs to this.
Who acts: half · What happens: cry, belong · To what, where: man
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 (half), 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 cried | punct |
| 2 | Hullo | hullo | INTJ | _ | 5 cried | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hullo | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hullo | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cried | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 belongs | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 belongs | punct |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 half | det |
| 10 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 11 belongs | nsubj |
| 11 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cried | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 this | case |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 belongs | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||||
| 2 | belong | present | another half | to this | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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