Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 70
The wagoner asked again, "What do you here?"
Who acts: wagoner · What happens: ask, do · To what, where: you · 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 (wagoner), 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 | 2 wagoner | det |
| 2 | wagoner | wagoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 asked | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 7 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 do | obj |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 do | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the wagoner | again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | you | here | 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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