Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 23
‘There,’ cried the sparrow, ‘thou cruel villain, thou hast killed my friend the dog.
Who acts: thou, dog · What happens: cry, villain, kill · To what, where: sparrow, thou
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, dog), 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 cried | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 cried | expl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sparrow | det |
| 7 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 villain | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 villain | punct |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 villain | nsubj |
| 11 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 villain | amod |
| 12 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 killed | punct |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 killed | aux:pass |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cried | conj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 friend | nmod:poss |
| 18 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 killed | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dog | det |
| 20 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 killed | obl:agent |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the sparrow | there | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sparrow=Topic | ||||
| 2 | villain | thou | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | kill | present · passive | the dog | thou | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer friend=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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