Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 89
The second one stopped and looked at him from head to foot; but at last she said, "How can I take a husband who has not a bit of a human countenance?
Who acts: second one, latter, husband · What happens: stop, look, say, take, have · To what, where: head, last, husband, bit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second one, latter, husband), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stopped | nsubj |
| 4 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 looked | cc |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stopped | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 foot | case |
| 12 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 head | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 said | obl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stopped | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 take | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 take | punct |
| 21 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 take | advmod |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 take | aux |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 take | nsubj |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 husband | det |
| 26 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 has | nsubj |
| 28 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 husband | acl:relcl |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 bit | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 bit | det |
| 31 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 has | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 countenance | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 countenance | det |
| 34 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 countenance | amod |
| 35 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bit | nmod |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the second one | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | look | past | the second one not said here | head to foot | at speech | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | latter | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | can | latter | a husband | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument husband=Destination | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | a husband | a bit of a human countenance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient |
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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