Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 23
Then the wicked wretch came in and said: ‘Where are the boy’s heart and tongue?’
Who acts: wicked wretch · What happens: come in, say, be · To what, where: heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked wretch), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wretch | det |
| 3 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wretch | amod |
| 4 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 heart | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 heart | punct |
| 11 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 heart | advmod |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 heart | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boy | det |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 boy | case |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tongue | cc |
| 18 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heart | conj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 heart | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 heart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | the wicked wretch | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the wicked wretch not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the boy's heart and tongue | 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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