Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 7
‘What a wonderful thing!’ said the king; ‘I have seen many strange things, but such a monster as this I never saw.
Who acts: I · What happens: say, see, not see · To what, where: king, many strange things, monster · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 thing | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 things | amod |
| 17 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 things | amod |
| 18 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 seen | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 saw | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 saw | cc |
| 21 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 monster | det:predet |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 monster | det |
| 23 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 saw | obl |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 this | case |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 monster | nmod |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 saw | nsubj |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 saw | advmod |
| 28 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | I | many strange things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not see | past | I | such monster as this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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