Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 25
‘What my commands are?’ replied the soldier, quite astonished.
Who acts: commands, my · What happens: be, reply, command · To what, where: soldier · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (commands, my), 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 replied | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 commands | nmod:poss |
| 4 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 What | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 What | cop |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 soldier | det |
| 10 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 astonished | punct |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 astonished | advmod |
| 13 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 soldier | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | my commands | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the soldier | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent soldier=Topic | |||||
| 3 | command | my | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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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