Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 89
The sixth, ‘Who has been cutting with my knife?’
Who acts: sixth · What happens: cut
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 (sixth), 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 sixth | det |
| 2 | sixth | sixth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cutting | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 cutting | punct |
| 5 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 cutting | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cutting | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 cutting | aux |
| 8 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sixth | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 knife | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 knife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cutting | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 cutting | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 sixth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present · perfect · progressive | the sixth | with my knife | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with knife=Instrument |
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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