Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 84
The first said, ‘Who has been sitting on my stool?’
Who acts: first · What happens: say, sit · To what, where: stool · 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 (first), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sitting | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 sitting | punct |
| 6 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 sitting | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sitting | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 sitting | aux |
| 9 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 stool | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 stool | nmod:poss |
| 12 | stool | stool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sitting | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 sitting | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the first | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sit | present · perfect · progressive | my stool | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stool=Location |
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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