Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 49

‘Alas!’ sighed she, ‘if any of my father’s court should pass by and see me standing in the market, how they will laugh at me!’

Who acts: any, me, pans · What happens: sigh, pass by, see, stand, laugh · To what, where: bargain, me, market

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 (any, me, pans), 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 sighed	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	5 sighed	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 sighed	punct
5	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sighed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pass	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 pass	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 pass	mark
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 pass	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 court	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 court	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 father	case
15	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 any	nmod
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 pass	aux
17	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sighed	parataxis
18	by	by	ADP	_	17 pass	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 see	cc
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 pass	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 see	obj
22	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 see	xcomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 market	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 market	det
25	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 standing	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 laugh	punct
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 laugh	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 laugh	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 laugh	aux
30	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 pass	conj
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 laugh	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 sighed	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sigh	past		bargain			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	pass by a condition, not said to happen	should	any				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	infinitive	any not said here	me			tree rules
4	stand	gerund	me not said here		the market		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in market=Location
5	laugh	future	pans = pan			at me	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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