Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 144
Little does my lady dream Rumpelstiltskin is my name!”
Who acts: Little, lady dream, my · What happens: do, be, dream · To what, where: name
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little, lady dream, 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 does | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dream | nmod:poss |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dream | compound |
| 5 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 name | nsubj |
| 6 | Rumpelstiltskin | Rumpelstiltskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dream | appos |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 name | cop |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 name | nmod:poss |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 does | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 name | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Little | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | my lady dream | my name | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dream | my | nom dream «cognition 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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