Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 36
‘It is only the heat of the weather,’ said the princess: ‘I feel it very warm too.’
Who acts: One, heat, I · What happens: be, say, feel · To what, where: heat, princess, One · 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 (One, heat, I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 heat | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heat | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 heat | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 heat | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heat | det |
| 6 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 weather | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 weather | det |
| 9 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heat | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 heat | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 heat | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 feel | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 feel | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 feel | nsubj |
| 18 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 feel | obj |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 warm | advmod |
| 21 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feel | xcomp |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 warm | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | One | the heat | of the weather | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the heat | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent princess=Topic | ||||
| 3 | feel | present | I | One | warm property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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