Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 47
He glared at the girls with his fiery red eyes and cried: ‘Why do you stand there?
Who acts: fellow, you · What happens: glare, cry, stand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow, you), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 glared | nsubj |
| 2 | glared | glare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 girls | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girls | det |
| 5 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 glared | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eyes | amod |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eyes | amod |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 glared | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cried | cc |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 glared | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 stand | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 stand | punct |
| 15 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 stand | advmod |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 stand | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 stand | nsubj |
| 18 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cried | ccomp |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 stand | advmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 glared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glare | past | fellow | at the girls; with fellow's fiery red eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | fellow not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stand | present · do-support | you | there | vn assuming_position-50 «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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