Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 29
They asked, "What do you here in the forest, in the winter-time, in this thin cloak?"
Who acts: Dwarfs · What happens: ask
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 (Dwarfs), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 forest | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 here | punct |
| 5 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 here | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 here | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 here | nsubj |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 forest | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 forest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 15 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 time | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 winter | punct |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cloak | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 cloak | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 cloak | det |
| 21 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cloak | amod |
| 22 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 cloak | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 cloak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Dwarfs = dwarf | time | 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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