Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 10
She has a soft, pleasant voice, but your voice is rough; you are the wolf!’
Who acts: goat, voice, you · What happens: have, be · To what, where: soft pleasant voice, wolf
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goat, voice, you), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 voice | det |
| 4 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 voice | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 soft | punct |
| 6 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 voice | amod |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rough | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 rough | cc |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 voice | nmod:poss |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rough | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 rough | cop |
| 13 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 has | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 wolf | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 wolf | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 wolf | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wolf | det |
| 18 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | parataxis |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 wolf | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 wolf | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | goat | a soft pleasant voice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | your voice | rough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | you | the wolf | 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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