Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 57
But he is not home yet," replied the second. "
Who acts: John · What happens: not be, reply · To what, where: second
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 replied | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 yet | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 yet | advmod |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 yet | advmod |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 replied | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 yet | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 yet | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 second | det |
| 11 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | home, yet property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | John | the second | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent second=Topic |
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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