Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 98
"How can you ask me that? they have not injured a hair of my head," replied the little man.
Who acts: you, little man · What happens: ask, not injure, reply · To what, where: me, stones · 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, little man), 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 ask | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ask | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | nsubj |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | iobj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 me | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 injured | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 injured | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 injured | advmod |
| 12 | injured | injure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ask | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hair | det |
| 14 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 injured | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hair | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 replied | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 replied | punct |
| 20 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 replied | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | can | you | me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not injure in a quote | present · perfect · passive | stones = stone | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the little man | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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