Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 129
I have been playing ninepins," he replied, "and lost a couple of dollars." "
Who acts: I, King · What happens: play, reply, lose · To what, where: ninepins, couple · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, King), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 playing | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 playing | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 playing | aux |
| 4 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ninepins | ninepin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 playing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 playing | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lost | cc |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 couple | det |
| 15 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lost | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 dollars | case |
| 17 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 couple | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 couple | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 couple | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 playing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present · perfect · progressive | I | ninepins | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ninepin=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | King | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lose | past | King not said here | a couple of dollars | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Eventuality |
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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