Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 12
‘No, thank you, miss,’ said the fox, ‘what is Mrs Fox doing?’
Who acts: Mrs Fox · What happens: thank, say, be, do · To what, where: you, fox, Mrs Fox · 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 (Mrs Fox), 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 | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 thank | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 4 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 thank | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 miss | punct |
| 7 | miss | miss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thank | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fox | det |
| 12 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Fox | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Fox | punct |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 Fox | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Fox | cop |
| 17 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Fox | compound |
| 18 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 Fox | acl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 doing | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Fox | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | present | you | miss vocative | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the fox | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Mrs Fox | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | gerund | Mrs Fox not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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