Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 37
‘Can he foretell anything to me?’ said the miller.
Who acts: raven · What happens: foretell, say · To what, where: anything, me, miller · 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 (raven), 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 | _ | 4 foretell | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 foretell | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 foretell | nsubj |
| 4 | foretell | foretell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 foretell | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 foretell | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 foretell | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 foretell | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 miller | det |
| 12 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | foretell | can | raven | anything | me | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the miller | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/28/37/