Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 33
‘What misfortune has happened then?’ asked he.
Who acts: misfortune · What happens: happen, ask · To what, where: misfortune
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 (misfortune), 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 happened | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 misfortune | det |
| 3 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 happened | aux |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 happened | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present · perfect | what misfortune | then | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | misfortune | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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