Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 34
The ecclesiastics recognized therein the token from above, and asked him on the spot if he would be pope.
Who acts: ecclesiastics, Pope · What happens: recognize, ask, be · To what, where: token, Pope, spot
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ecclesiastics, Pope), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ecclesiastics | det |
| 2 | ecclesiastics | ecclesiastic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 recognized | nsubj |
| 3 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 3 recognized | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 token | det |
| 6 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recognized | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 above | case |
| 8 | above | above | ADV | _ | 3 recognized | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 recognized | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 spot | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spot | det |
| 15 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obl |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 pope | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pope | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 pope | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 pope | cop |
| 20 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 recognized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognize | past | the ecclesiastics | the token | therein property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer token=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Pope | the spot | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a a condition, not said to happen | would | Pope | pope | 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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