Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 20
‘I seek for my brothers, the seven ravens,’ answered she.
Who acts: I · What happens: seek, answer · To what, where: girl
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Seven Ravens. 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 | _ | 3 seek | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 seek | nsubj |
| 3 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 answered | advcl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 brothers | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seek | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ravens | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ravens | det |
| 9 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 ravens | nummod |
| 10 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brothers | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seek | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 seek | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 answered | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | present | I | for my brothers and the seven ravens | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for brother=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | girl | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
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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