Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 22
The third fared no better, for the peasant again said: ‘Grete, that is the third.’
Who acts: third, peasant, that · What happens: fare, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Doctor Knowall. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third, peasant, that), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 third | det |
| 2 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fared | nsubj |
| 3 | fared | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 better | advmod |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 fared | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 peasant | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 peasant | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 peasant | det |
| 9 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fared | parataxis |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Grete | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Grete | punct |
| 14 | Grete | Grete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 third | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 third | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 third | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 third | det |
| 19 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 Grete | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Grete | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 fared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fare | past | the third | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the peasant | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | that | third 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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