Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 83

You dragged at my brown coat so that it is all torn and full of holes, you clumsy creatures!’

Who acts: You · What happens: drag, tear, creature · To what, where: brown coat, coat

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 (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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 dragged	nsubj
2	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 coat	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 coat	nmod:poss
5	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coat	amod
6	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dragged	obl
7	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 torn	mark
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 so	fixed
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 torn	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 torn	aux:pass
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 torn	advmod
12	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dragged	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 full	cc
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 torn	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 holes	case
16	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 full	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 creatures	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 creatures	nsubj
19	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 creatures	amod
20	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dragged	parataxis
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 creatures	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 dragged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drag	past	You		my brown coat		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at coat=Location
2	tear	present · passive		coat		all property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	creature		you				tree rules

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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