Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 7
"What is it you have for dinner, dear mother?" he inquired.
Who acts: hearth, sword · What happens: be, inquire · 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 (hearth, sword), 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 | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 have | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 inquired | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 dinner | case |
| 8 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mother | punct |
| 10 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mother | amod |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dinner | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 inquired | nsubj |
| 15 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | hearth | for dinner and dear mother; have property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | sword | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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