Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 41
‘Have you looked behind the large cask?’ said one of the others.
Who acts: you, one · What happens: look, say · 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, one), 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 looked | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 cask | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cask | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cask | amod |
| 8 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 others | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 others | det |
| 15 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present · perfect | you | behind the large cask | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind cask=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one of the others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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