Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 55

‘Where are the butter and cheese?’ said he.

Who acts: butter · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (butter), 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	_	2 Where	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Where	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 butter	det
5	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Where	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cheese	cc
7	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 butter	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Where	cop
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Where	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the butter and cheese					where property	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.

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