Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 130
‘You silly girl!’ answered the other, ‘what are you afraid of?
Who acts: You, silly girl · What happens: girl, answer, be · To what, where: other
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, silly girl), 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 girl | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 girl | nsubj |
| 3 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 girl | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 girl | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 afraid | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 afraid | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 afraid | obj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 afraid | cop |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 afraid | nsubj |
| 15 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answered | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 afraid | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | girl | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | silly girl | the other | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | present | you | afraid 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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