Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 74
‘No,’ answered he, ‘not now, they will discover us.’
Who acts: nuts · What happens: answer, discover · To what, where: wind, us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (nuts), 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 | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 discover | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 discover | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 now | advmod |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 discover | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 now | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 discover | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 discover | aux |
| 14 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 discover | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 discover | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | wind | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | discover | future | nuts = nut | us | now | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Topic |
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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