Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 36
‘Faith,’ said he, ‘that was a little better, wasn’t it?’
Who acts: Faith, that · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Faith, that), 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 Faith | punct |
| 2 | Faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Faith | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Faith | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 better | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ‘ | SCONJ | _ | 13 better | mark |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 better | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 better | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 little | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 better | obl |
| 13 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 said | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 n’t | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 n’t | cop |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 better | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 n’t | nsubj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Faith | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | that | a little obl; good property | 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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