Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 153
‘Can your name be RUMPELSTILTSKIN?’ said the lady slyly.
Who acts: name, RUMPELSTILTSKIN, your · What happens: be, say, name · To what, where: RUMPELSTILTSKIN, lady · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (name, RUMPELSTILTSKIN, your), 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 RUMPELSTILTSKIN | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 RUMPELSTILTSKIN | aux |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 name | nmod:poss |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 RUMPELSTILTSKIN | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 RUMPELSTILTSKIN | cop |
| 6 | RUMPELSTILTSKIN | RUMPELSTILTSKIN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 RUMPELSTILTSKIN | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 RUMPELSTILTSKIN | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lady | det |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | slyly | slyly | ADV | _ | 11 lady | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | can | your name | RUMPELSTILTSKIN | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | RUMPELSTILTSKIN | the lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lady=Topic | ||||
| 3 | name | your | nom name «communication 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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