Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 60
‘I don’t know how that may be,’ said she; ‘never is a long time.
Who acts: I, that, wife · What happens: not know, be, say, not be · To what, where: long time · 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 (I, that, wife), 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 | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 be | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 be | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 be | aux |
| 9 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 know | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 time | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 time | punct |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 time | advmod |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 time | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | may | that | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not is a | present | a long time | 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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