Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 12
Little dandyprat," replied the Prince, "what do you want to know for?" and he rode off without looking round.
Who acts: Little dandyprat, you, Prince · What happens: reply, want, know, ride off, look round · To what, where: Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little dandyprat, you, Prince), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dandyprat | amod |
| 2 | dandyprat | dandyprat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dandyprat | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 dandyprat | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 want | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 want | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 want | obj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 want | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 want | nsubj |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 want | xcomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 know | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 want | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 want | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rode | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 rode | nsubj |
| 21 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | conj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 rode | compound:prt |
| 23 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 24 looking | mark |
| 24 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 rode | advcl |
| 25 | round | round | ADV | _ | 24 looking | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | Little dandyprat | the Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | present · do-support | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | ride off in a quote | past | Prince | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | look round in a quote | gerund | Prince not said here | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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