Grimms' Fairy Tales, Second Story, sentence 16
Mrs Fox asked: ‘Has the gentleman red stockings on, and has he a pointed mouth?’
Who acts: Mrs · What happens: ask, have · To what, where: gentleman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Second 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mrs | flat |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Has | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Has | punct |
| 6 | Has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gentleman | det |
| 8 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Has | obj |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stockings | amod |
| 10 | stockings | stocking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Has | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 Has | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 has | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 has | cc |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Has | conj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 has | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 mouth | det |
| 17 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mouth | amod |
| 18 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Mrs | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | present | the gentleman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | present | gentleman | tree rules |
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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