Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 9
‘Pray, my good lady,’ said the ass, ‘what’s the matter with you?
Who acts: Pray, ass · What happens: say, be · To what, where: ass, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pray, ass), 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 Pray | punct |
| 2 | Pray | Pray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lady | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lady | nmod:poss |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lady | amod |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Pray | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lady | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 lady | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ass | det |
| 11 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 matter | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 matter | punct |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 matter | nsubj |
| 15 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 matter | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 matter | det |
| 17 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ass | appos |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 matter | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Pray | the ass | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ass=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the ass | the matter | with you | tree rules |
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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