Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 81
‘Alas!’ said she to herself, ‘was I not once set free?
Who acts: queen, I · What happens: say, not be · To what, where: queen · 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 (queen, 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 herself | case |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 set | cop |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 set | nsubj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 set | advmod |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 set | advmod |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 set | xcomp |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | queen | queen | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | I | free, once, set 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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