Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 108
The father thought to himself, ‘Can it be Ashputtel?’
Who acts: father, tree · What happens: think, be · To what, where: father, Ashputtel
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, tree), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 thought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ashputtel | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ashputtel | punct |
| 8 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 Ashputtel | aux |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 Ashputtel | nsubj |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Ashputtel | cop |
| 11 | Ashputtel | Ashputtel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ashputtel | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ashputtel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the father | father | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | can | tree | Ashputtel | 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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