Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 36
How does that little performance please you, friend?" asked the Tailor.
Who acts: little performance · What happens: do, ask · To what, where: Tailor · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (little performance), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 does | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 performance | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 performance | amod |
| 5 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 7 you | discourse |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 performance | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 friend | punct |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 performance | appos |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 friend | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 friend | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 does | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Tailor | det |
| 14 | Tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | that little performance you | the Tailor | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tailor=Recipient |
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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