Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 89
‘That is my own ring,’ she exclaimed, ‘and if that is so the man must also be here who is coming to set me free.’
Who acts: That, maiden, man · What happens: be, exclaim, set · To what, where: own ring, ‘, me
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 (That, maiden, man), 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 ring | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 ring | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ring | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ring | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ring | amod |
| 6 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 exclaimed | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 10 exclaimed | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 10 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ring | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ‘ | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 exclaimed | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 coming | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 coming | mark |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 coming | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 coming | cop |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 23 here | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 here | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 here | aux |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 23 here | advmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 here | cop |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 coming | advmod |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 coming | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 coming | aux |
| 26 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 exclaimed | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 set | mark |
| 28 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 coming | advcl |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 set | obj |
| 30 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 set | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ring | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 ring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | my own ring | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | maiden | ‘ | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ‘=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | must | the man | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | present · progressive | that | come property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | set | to-infinitive | that not said here | me | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result |
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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