Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 7
Have you the cheek to ask how I am getting on?
Who acts: you, I · What happens: have, ask, get on · To what, where: cheek · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Have | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cheek | det |
| 4 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Have | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 ask | mark |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cheek | acl |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 getting | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 getting | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 getting | aux |
| 10 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 ask | ccomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 getting | compound:prt |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | the cheek | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | you not said here | the cheek not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | get on | present · progressive | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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