Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 23
‘Good,’ said the fox, ‘but what signal shall we agree upon?’
Who acts: fox, signal · What happens: say, agree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Willow-wren and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, signal), 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 | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Good | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fox | det |
| 7 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 agree | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 agree | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 agree | cc |
| 11 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 12 signal | det |
| 12 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 agree | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 agree | aux |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 agree | nsubj |
| 15 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Good | parataxis |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 agree | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | shall | what signal | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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