Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 67
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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