Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 46
He replied: ‘Lord King, your majesty must excuse me, I am a poor huntsman.’
Who acts: household, Lord King, I · What happens: reply, excuse, be · To what, where: me, poor huntsman · 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 (household, Lord King, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 excuse | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 excuse | punct |
| 5 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 King | compound |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 excuse | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 excuse | punct |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 9 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 excuse | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 excuse | aux |
| 11 | excuse | excuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 replied | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 excuse | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 huntsman | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 huntsman | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 huntsman | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 huntsman | det |
| 17 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 huntsman | amod |
| 18 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 excuse | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 excuse | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 excuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | household | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | excuse | must | Lord King | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | a poor huntsman | 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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