Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 35
After this the miller saw the skin in which the raven was, lying on the ground, and asked: ‘What have you there?’
Who acts: miller, raven, you · What happens: see, lie, ask, have · To what, where: skin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller, raven, you), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 saw | mark |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 miller | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 miller | det |
| 4 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 skin | det |
| 7 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lying | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 raven | det |
| 11 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lying | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lying | aux |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lying | punct |
| 14 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 skin | acl:relcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lying | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asked | cc |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | parataxis |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 23 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 have | obj |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 asked | ccomp |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 have | advmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | this miller | the skin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lie | past · progressive | the raven | the skin | on the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | have | present | you | there | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
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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