Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 64
Ah," they said, "what does this great warrior here in time of peace?
Who acts: people · What happens: say, do · To what, where: great warrior · 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 (people), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 does | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 does | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 does | nsubj |
| 9 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 warrior | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 warrior | amod |
| 12 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 does | obj |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 does | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 does | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 peace | case |
| 17 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 time | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | present | this great warrior | here | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Eventuality |
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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