Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 23
Where are your brothers?" asked he. "
Who acts: brothers · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: brothers, King
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 asked | advmod |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brothers | cop |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 brothers | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 brothers | punct |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | iobj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | your brothers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | your brothers | King | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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