Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 6
‘Father, I have learnt what the dogs say when they bark.’
Who acts: Father, dogs · What happens: learn, say, bark · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Father, dogs), 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 Father | punct |
| 2 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 learnt | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 learnt | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 learnt | aux |
| 6 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 say | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dogs | det |
| 9 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 say | nsubj |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 learnt | parataxis |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 bark | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bark | nsubj |
| 13 | bark | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 learnt | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 learnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present · perfect | Father | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the dogs | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bark | present | dogs = dog | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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