Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 52
When she is out in the meadow," said her sister, "she says:
Who acts: Eye, sister · What happens: be, say · To what, where: meadow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eye, sister), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 out | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 out | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 out | cop |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 meadow | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 meadow | det |
| 7 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 meadow | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 meadow | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 says | parataxis |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sister | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 says | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 says | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 says | nsubj |
| 16 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Eye | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Eye's sister | the meadow | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in meadow=Manner | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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