Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 34
What further commands has my lord?’ inquired the dwarf.
Who acts: further commands · What happens: have, inquire · To what, where: lord, dwarf
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 (further commands), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 inquired | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 commands | amod |
| 3 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lord | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 inquired | punct |
| 9 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dwarf | det |
| 11 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 inquired | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | further commands | my lord | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Patient | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | the dwarf | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dwarf=Recipient |
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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