Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 107
‘Alas, wife!’ said he, ‘cannot you be easy with being pope?’
Who acts: wife, you · What happens: say, not be, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 easy | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 easy | punct |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 easy | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 easy | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 easy | nsubj |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 easy | cop |
| 15 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 pope | case |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 pope | cop |
| 18 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 easy | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | can | you | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | with pope | 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: «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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