Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 8
‘My house is out there in the dark forest,’ he said.
Who acts: house, man · What happens: be, say · To what, where: dark forest · 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 (house, man), 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 | _ | 6 there | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 house | nmod:poss |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 there | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | cop |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 there | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 said | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 9 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 forest | amod |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 there | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 forest | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My house | the dark forest | out, there property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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