Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 33
As he could not find it immediately he said: ‘I know you are there, so you had better come out!’
Who acts: doctor, I, you · What happens: not find, say, know, be, have, come out · To what, where: book · 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 (doctor, I, you), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 find | advmod |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 find | obj |
| 7 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 there | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 there | cop |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 know | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 had | advmod |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 21 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 had | advmod |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 had | xcomp |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 come | advmod |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | could | doctor | book | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | doctor | immediately property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | present | you | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | past | you | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come out | infinitive | you not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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