Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 111
With pleasure," was the reply; "it is a mere nothing."
Who acts: reply · What happens: be · To what, where: reply, nothing
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reply), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 pleasure | case |
| 2 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reply | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pleasure | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 pleasure | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reply | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 reply | det |
| 7 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 nothing | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 nothing | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 nothing | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 nothing | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 nothing | det |
| 13 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 nothing | amod |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 reply | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 nothing | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | the reply | with pleasure | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | reply | nothing | 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: «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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