Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 59
Then the first began again, and exclaimed, "What matters that?
Who acts: first · What happens: begin, exclaim, matter · To what, where: that · 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 (first), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 first | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 began | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 exclaimed | cc |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 began | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 matters | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 matters | punct |
| 11 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 matters | nsubj |
| 12 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 exclaimed | conj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 matters | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the first | then; again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | participle | the first not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | matter in a quote | present | that | tree rules |
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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