Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 102
‘Bird,’ he said, ‘what a beautiful song that is you sing!
Who acts: father, you · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bird | punct |
| 2 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bird | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bird | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 what | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 what | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 said | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 song | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 song | amod |
| 12 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 what | nsubj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 sing | obj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sing | cop |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 sing | nsubj |
| 16 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 song | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | you | sing property | 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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