Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 16
‘Certainly, young sir.’
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: 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 sir | punct |
| 2 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 young | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Certainly | punct |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sir | amod |
| 5 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sir | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sir | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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