Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 14
But the old woman called out to her, "What are you afraid of, dear child?
Who acts: woman · What happens: call out, be · To what, where: woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 called | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | parataxis |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 called | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 called | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 afraid | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 afraid | punct |
| 11 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 afraid | obj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 afraid | cop |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 afraid | nsubj |
| 14 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 called | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 child | case |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 of | punct |
| 17 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 child | amod |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 afraid | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: ask | participle | woman | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | woman | of dear child; afraid property | 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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