Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 88
‘Why do you stand gaping there?’ cried the dwarf, and his ashen-grey face became copper-red with rage.
Who acts: you, grey face · What happens: stand, gape, cry, become · To what, where: dwarf, copper · 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 (you, grey face), 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 | _ | 5 stand | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 stand | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stand | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 stand | nsubj |
| 5 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cried | ccomp |
| 6 | gaping | gape | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 stand | xcomp |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 gaping | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 stand | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 stand | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 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 | _ | 20 became | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 became | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 face | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ashen | ashen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 grey | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ashen | punct |
| 18 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 face | amod |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 became | nsubj |
| 20 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 21 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 became | xcomp |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 red | punct |
| 23 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 copper | appos |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 rage | case |
| 25 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 red | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present · do-support | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | gape | gerund | you not said here | there | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the dwarf | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | become | past | eagle's grey face | copper | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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