Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 154

Of all the ladies in the land, Who is fairest, tell me, who?’

Who acts: ladies, you · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (ladies, 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 ladies	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 ladies	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ladies	det
4	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tell	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 land	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 land	det
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ladies	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fairest	punct
9	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 fairest	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fairest	cop
11	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 ladies	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ladies	punct
13	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 who	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 tell	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all ladies in the land					fair property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me			of all ladies in the land	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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