Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 50
‘You stupid, prying goose!’ answered the dwarf: ‘I was going to split the tree to get a little wood for cooking.
Who acts: I · What happens: pry, answer, go, split, get · To what, where: goose, dwarf, tree, little wood
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 (I), 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 | _ | 3 stupid | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 stupid | nsubj |
| 3 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 prying | punct |
| 5 | prying | pry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stupid | advcl |
| 6 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prying | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 stupid | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 stupid | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dwarf | det |
| 11 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 going | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 going | aux |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 answered | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 split | mark |
| 18 | split | split | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 going | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 split | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 split | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 wood | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 wood | amod |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 cooking | case |
| 27 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wood | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pry | gerund | goose | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent goose=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the dwarf | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | split | to-infinitive | I not said here | the tree | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | ||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | I not said here | a little wood | for cooking | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wood=Theme for cooking=Source |
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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