Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 65
‘I am not such a fool!’ cried the dwarf; ‘don’t you see that the accursed fish wants to pull me in?’
Who acts: I, fool, you, accursed fish · What happens: not be, cry, do, not see, accurs, want · To what, where: fool, dwarf, me
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, fool, you, accursed fish), 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 | _ | 7 fool | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 fool | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fool | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 fool | advmod |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 fool | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fool | det |
| 7 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 fool | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 fool | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dwarf | det |
| 12 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | parataxis |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 see | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | advcl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 wants | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fish | det |
| 21 | accursed | accurs | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 fish | amod |
| 22 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wants | nsubj |
| 23 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 pull | mark |
| 25 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wants | xcomp |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 pull | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 pull | compound:prt |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | I | such fool | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | such fool | the dwarf | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | accurs | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | want | present | the accursed fish | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | pull in not said to happen | to-infinitive | the accursed fish not said here | me | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent i=Result |
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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