Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 54
‘And you, my love,’ said the bridegroom, turning to her, ‘is there no tale you know?
Who acts: you, tale, my · What happens: say, turn, be, know, love · To what, where: bridegroom, bride, tale · 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, tale, my), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 love | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 love | nmod:poss |
| 6 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 you | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 love | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 love | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bridegroom | det |
| 11 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turning | punct |
| 13 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 turning | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 is | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 is | punct |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 tale | det |
| 21 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | nsubj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 tale | acl:relcl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | you | the bridegroom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Topic | ||||
| 2 | turn | gerund | you not said here | bride | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result | ||||
| 3 | be | present | no tale | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | know | present | you | no tale not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | love | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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