Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 30
‘Ah,’ she replied, ‘the way is so long, and what shall I do in a strange land where I am unknown?’
Who acts: dog, way, I · What happens: reply, be, do · To what, where: strange land
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 (dog, way, I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 6 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 6 replied | cc |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 long | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 long | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 long | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 long | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 long | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 replied | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 what | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 what | cc |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 land | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 land | det |
| 22 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 land | amod |
| 23 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | obl |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 unknown | advmod |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 unknown | nsubj |
| 26 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 unknown | cop |
| 27 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 land | acl:relcl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 what | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | dog | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the way | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | shall | I | a strange land | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | I | unknown property | 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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