Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 87
"You have been dreaming," he answered; "I did not touch you."
Who acts: You, Tailor · What happens: dream, answer, not touch · To what, where: you · 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 (You, Tailor), 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 | _ | 5 dreaming | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 dreaming | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dreaming | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 dreaming | aux |
| 5 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 answered | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dreaming | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 touch | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 touch | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 touch | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 touch | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 touch | advmod |
| 15 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 touch | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 touch | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | You | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Tailor | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not touch in a quote | past · do-support | Tailor | you | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-Theme |
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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