Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 82
As soon as the dwarf had recovered from his first fright he cried with his shrill voice: ‘Could you not have done it more carefully!
Who acts: eagle, you · What happens: recover, cry, not do, fright · To what, where: dwarf, first fright, voice
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 (eagle, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 recovered | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 recovered | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dwarf | det |
| 5 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recovered | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 recovered | aux |
| 7 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 fright | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 fright | nmod:poss |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 fright | amod |
| 11 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recovered | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fright | acl:relcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 voice | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 voice | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 voice | amod |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 done | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 done | punct |
| 20 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 done | aux |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 done | nsubj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 done | advmod |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 done | aux |
| 24 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 recovered | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 done | obj |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 carefully | advmod |
| 27 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 24 done | advmod |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 recovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past · perfect · passive | the dwarf | eagle's first fright | soon property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from fright=Source | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | eagle | eagle's first fright not said here | with eagle's shrill voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fright=Topic | |||
| 3 | not do | could · perfect | you | voice | carefully property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | fright | eagle | nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=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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