Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 5

‘What must I do?’ asked the peasant.

Who acts: I · What happens: do, ask · To what, where: peasant · 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 (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 do	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 asked	ccomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 peasant	det
10	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	must	I						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	past			the peasant				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent peasant=Recipient clause=Topic

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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