Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 58
But he has her," said the third; "she is sitting by him in the ship."
Who acts: John, daughter · What happens: have, say, sit · To what, where: daughter, third, ship · 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, daughter), 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 | _ | 3 has | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 has | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 third | det |
| 9 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 sitting | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 sitting | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sitting | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sitting | aux |
| 14 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sitting | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 ship | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ship | det |
| 19 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sitting | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | John | daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the third | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent third=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sit | present · progressive | daughter | the ship | by John | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location |
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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