Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 110

‘But are you not wounded?’ asked the horsemen.

Who acts: you · What happens: not be, ask · To what, where: horsemen

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	6 wounded	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 wounded	cc
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wounded	cop
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 wounded	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wounded	advmod
6	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 asked	parataxis
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wounded	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 wounded	punct
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 horsemen	det
11	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 asked	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	you					wounded property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past		the horsemen					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent horseman=Recipient

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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