Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 23
‘Can you tell me,’ asked the girl, ‘if my betrothed husband lives here?’
Who acts: you, ’, betrothed husband · What happens: tell, ask, betroth, live · To what, where: me, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ’, betrothed husband), 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 | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lives | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 lives | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 lives | mark |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 husband | nmod:poss |
| 15 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 husband | amod |
| 16 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lives | nsubj |
| 17 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | conj |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 lives | advmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | can | you | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | ’ | the girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | betroth | participle | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | live a condition, not said to happen | present | my betrothed husband | here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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