Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 121
First she said, "Are you called Conrade?" "
Who acts: Queen · What happens: say, call · To what, where: you · 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), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 6 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | aux:pass |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 called | nsubj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | Conrade | Conrade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 Conrade | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Conrade | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Queen | first property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | call in a quote | present · passive | you | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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