Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 29
‘What an unlucky wretch I am!’ cried he.
Who acts: I, unlucky wretch · What happens: be, cry · To what, where: unlucky wretch, harm
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 (I, unlucky wretch), 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 | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 wretch | det:predet |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wretch | det |
| 4 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wretch | amod |
| 5 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wretch | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wretch | cop |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 wretch | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 wretch | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cried | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | what unlucky wretch | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | what unlucky wretch | harm | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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