Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 10
‘I am not sleeping, I am waking, Would you know what I am making?
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not sleep, wake, know, make · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, First Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sleeping | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sleeping | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sleeping | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sleeping | advmod |
| 5 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 waking | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 waking | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 waking | aux |
| 9 | waking | wake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sleeping | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 11 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sleeping | conj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 making | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 making | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 making | aux |
| 17 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 know | ccomp |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sleeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sleep | present · progressive | I | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wake | present · progressive | I | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | know | would | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | make | present · progressive | I | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Product |
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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