Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 11

‘Look at him,’ said she; ‘his beard is like an old mop; he shall be called Grisly-beard.’

Who acts: you, maypole, beard · What happens: look, say, be, call · To what, where: dumpling · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, maypole, beard), 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 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Look	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Look	advcl
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 mop	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 mop	punct
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 beard	nmod:poss
12	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mop	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 mop	cop
14	like	like	ADP	_	17 mop	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 mop	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mop	amod
17	mop	mop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Look	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 called	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 called	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 called	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 called	aux:pass
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Look	parataxis
23	Grisly	grisly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 beard	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 Grisly	punct
25	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 called	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here		at dumpling	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	maypole			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	dumpling's beard		like a old mop	tree rules
4	call	shall · passive		dumpling		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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