Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 22

"Who's there?" asked the old lady.

What happens: be, ask · To what, where: old lady · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red Cap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	4 there	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 there	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 asked	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lady	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lady	amod
10	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asked	iobj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present						there property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past			the old lady				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lady=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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