Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 66
‘How shall I be able to get there?’ asked the man.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, get, ask · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 able | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 able | advmod |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 able | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 able | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | cop |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 get | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 able | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 able | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | I not said here | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=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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