Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 21
The first words he spoke were, "Who does that beautiful picture represent?" "
Who acts: John, first words · What happens: speak, represent · To what, where: first words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, first words), 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 words | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 represent | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 words | acl:relcl |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 represent | aux |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 represent | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 represent | punct |
| 9 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 represent | nsubj |
| 10 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 represent | aux |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 picture | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 picture | amod |
| 13 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 represent | nsubj |
| 14 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 represent | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 represent | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 represent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | John | the first words not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | represent in a quote | past · do-support | the first words | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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