Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 63
‘Bird,’ he said, ‘how beautifully you sing!
Who acts: goldsmith, you · What happens: say, sing · 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 (goldsmith, 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 | _ | 10 beautifully | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 beautifully | punct |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 beautifully | advmod |
| 10 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 sing | nsubj |
| 12 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 beautifully | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | goldsmith | beautifully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | you | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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