Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 37
"Indeed you are a brave fellow," they said, "will you be our captain?"
Who acts: you, robbers · What happens: be, say · To what, where: Indeed brave fellow, captain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, robbers), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fellow | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fellow | amod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 fellow | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fellow | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fellow | det |
| 6 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fellow | amod |
| 7 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fellow | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fellow | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 captain | punct |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 captain | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 captain | nsubj |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 captain | cop |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 captain | nmod:poss |
| 18 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 captain | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 captain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | you | a Indeed brave fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | robbers = robber | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | future | you | our captain | 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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