Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 11
‘Full threepence,’ replied the countryman.
Who acts: Full threepence · What happens: reply · To what, where: countryman
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 (Full threepence), 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 | _ | 3 threepence | punct |
| 2 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 threepence | amod |
| 3 | threepence | threepence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 threepence | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 threepence | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 countryman | det |
| 8 | countryman | countryman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Full threepence | the countryman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent countryman=Topic |
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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