Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 77
Then her husband was alarmed, and asked, "What ails you, dear wife?" "
What happens: alarm, ask, ail · To what, where: husband, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | 5 alarmed | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 husband | nmod:poss |
| 3 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 5 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 asked | cc |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 alarmed | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ails | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 ails | punct |
| 11 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 ails | nsubj |
| 12 | ails | ail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 ails | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wife | punct |
| 15 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wife | amod |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ails | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 wife | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 wife | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 ails | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alarm | past · passive | desire's husband | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | ail in a quote | present | you | dear wife obl | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient you=Experiencer |
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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