Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 61
The second one asked, "Is there no escape?" "
Who acts: second one · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: second one, escape · 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 (second one), 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 | 10 escape | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 one | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Is | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Is | punct |
| 7 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 escape | cop |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 Is | expl |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 escape | det |
| 10 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 escape | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 escape | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 escape | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | participle | the second one not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the second one | no escape | 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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