Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 23
‘Ah,’ said Elsie, ‘have I not reason to weep?
Who acts: Elsie, I · What happens: say, not reason, weep · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elsie, 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Elsie | Elsie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reason | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 reason | punct |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 reason | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 reason | nsubj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 reason | advmod |
| 12 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 weep | mark |
| 14 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 reason | acl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Elsie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not reason | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | weep | to-infinitive | Elsie not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/32/23/