Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 66
You silly girl!" answered the other, "what are you afraid of? do you think it is poisoned?
Who acts: You, silly girl · What happens: girl, answer, be, think, poison · To what, where: other, apple · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, silly girl), 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 | 3 girl | nsubj |
| 2 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 girl | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 girl | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 other | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 afraid | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 afraid | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 afraid | obj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 afraid | cop |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 afraid | nsubj |
| 14 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 answered | conj |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 think | mark |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 think | punct |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 think | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 think | nsubj |
| 19 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 afraid | ccomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 poisoned | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 poisoned | aux:pass |
| 22 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 think | ccomp |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | girl | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | silly girl | the other | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | present | you | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | poison | present · passive | apple | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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