Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 87
‘Enough of your foolish chatter,’ said the waggoner.
Who acts: your · What happens: say, chatter · To what, where: waggoner · 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 (your), 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 | _ | 2 Enough | punct |
| 2 | Enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 chatter | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 chatter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chatter | amod |
| 6 | chatter | chatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Enough | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Enough | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Enough | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 waggoner | det |
| 11 | waggoner | waggoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the waggoner | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent waggoner=Topic | |||||
| 2 | chatter | your | nom chatter «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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