Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 28
Then the youngest daughter said again, ‘I am sure all is not right--did not you hear that noise?
Who acts: youngest daughter, I, all, you · What happens: say, be, not be, not hear · To what, where: noise · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest daughter, I, all, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 daughter | det |
| 3 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 daughter | amod |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sure | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 sure | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 sure | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sure | cop |
| 11 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 right | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 right | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 right | advmod |
| 15 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sure | ccomp |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 hear | punct |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hear | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 hear | advmod |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 hear | nsubj |
| 20 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 noise | det |
| 22 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hear | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the youngest daughter | then; again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | all | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not hear | past · do-support | you | that noise | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus |
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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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