Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 33
‘It is all done,’ said he, ‘and the witch is already hanging on the gallows.
Who acts: man, witch · What happens: do, say, hang · To what, where: cat, gallows · 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 (man, witch), 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 done | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 done | advmod |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 he | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 17 hanging | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hanging | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 witch | det |
| 14 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hanging | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hanging | aux |
| 16 | already | already | ADV | _ | 17 hanging | advmod |
| 17 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 gallows | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gallows | det |
| 20 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hanging | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · passive | cat | all property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hang | present · progressive | the witch | the gallows | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on gallows=Location |
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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