Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 19
‘Mind your own affairs, busybody!’ said the prince scornfully, and rode on.
What happens: mind, say, ride on · To what, where: own affairs, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 2 Mind | punct |
| 2 | Mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 affairs | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 affairs | amod |
| 5 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Mind | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 busybody | punct |
| 7 | busybody | busybody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 affairs | conj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mind | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mind | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | scornfully | scornfully | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rode | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rode | cc |
| 16 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 rode | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind | infinitive | your own affairs and busybody | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affair=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | scornfully property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ride on | past | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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