Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 70
When the dwarf saw that he screamed out: ‘Is that civil, you toadstool, to disfigure a man’s face?
Who acts: dwarf, part, you · What happens: see, scream out, be, toadstool, disfigure · To what, where: face · 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 (dwarf, part, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dwarf | det |
| 3 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 screamed | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 screamed | nsubj |
| 7 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 screamed | compound:prt |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 civil | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 civil | punct |
| 11 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 civil | cop |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 civil | mark |
| 13 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 toadstool | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 toadstool | nsubj |
| 16 | toadstool | toadstool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 civil | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 disfigure | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 disfigure | mark |
| 19 | disfigure | disfigure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saw | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 face | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 man | case |
| 23 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 disfigure | obj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the dwarf | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | scream out speech: express | past | part | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the dwarf not said here | civil property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | toadstool | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | disfigure | to-infinitive | the dwarf not said here | a man's face | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
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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