Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 117
The second day the Queen inquired of all her people for uncommon and curious names, and called the Dwarf "Ribs-of-Beef," "Sheep-shank," "Whalebone," but at each he said, "This is not my name."
Who acts: Queen, name, This · What happens: inquire, call, say, not be · To what, where: Dwarf, each, name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, name, This), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 inquired | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 inquired | nsubj |
| 6 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 people | det:predet |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 people | nmod:poss |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 inquired | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 names | case |
| 12 | uncommon | uncommon | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 names | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 curious | cc |
| 14 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 uncommon | conj |
| 15 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 people | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 called | cc |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 inquired | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Dwarf | det |
| 20 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 called | obj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ribs | punct |
| 22 | Ribs | rib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 called | obl |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Beef | punct |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Beef | case |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 of | punct |
| 26 | Beef | beef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Ribs | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 shank | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 shank | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 shank | punct |
| 30 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shank | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Sheep | punct |
| 32 | shank | shank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 shank | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 shank | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 Whalebone | punct |
| 36 | Whalebone | whalebone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | xcomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Whalebone | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 Whalebone | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 said | cc |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 each | case |
| 41 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 said | obl |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 said | nsubj |
| 43 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 called | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 name | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 name | punct |
| 46 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 50 name | nsubj |
| 47 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 name | cop |
| 48 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 50 name | advmod |
| 49 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 name | nmod:poss |
| 50 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 said | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 inquired | punct |
| 52 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | past | the Queen | day | of Queen's people for uncommon names | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of people=Recipient | |||
| 2 | call | past | the Dwarf | Ribs and Beef obl | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dwarf=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | name | each | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | This | my name | 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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