Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 14
But the son thought to himself, ‘What can such a beast as this know about the matter?’
Who acts: son, this · What happens: think, beast, know · To what, where: son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, this), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 thought | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 himself | case |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 thought | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beast | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 beast | punct |
| 9 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 beast | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 beast | aux |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 beast | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 beast | det |
| 13 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 know | mark |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 know | nsubj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 beast | advcl |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 matter | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 matter | det |
| 19 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 know | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 beast | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 beast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the son | son | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | beast | can | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | know | present | this | about the matter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about matter=Stimulus |
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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