Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 5
‘Prithee, friend, why so sorrowful?’ said he to the merchant; ‘what is it you take so deeply to heart?’
Who acts: Prithee, it · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prithee, it), 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 Prithee | punct |
| 2 | Prithee | Prithee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Prithee | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 sorrowful | advmod |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 sorrowful | advmod |
| 8 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Prithee | amod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prithee | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prithee | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 merchant | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 merchant | det |
| 15 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 take | obj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 take | cop |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 take | nsubj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 take | nsubj |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 deeply | advmod |
| 24 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 22 take | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 heart | mark |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Prithee | to the merchant | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to merchant=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | it | deeply, take property | 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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