Grimms' Fairy Tales, Second Story, sentence 22
Then Mrs Fox said: ‘Has the gentleman red stockings on, and has a little pointed mouth?’
Who acts: Mrs Fox · What happens: say, have · To what, where: gentleman, little pointed mouth · 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 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Fox | compound |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Has | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Has | punct |
| 7 | Has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gentleman | det |
| 9 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Has | obj |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stockings | amod |
| 11 | stockings | stocking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Has | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADV | _ | 7 Has | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 has | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 has | cc |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Has | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 mouth | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mouth | amod |
| 18 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mouth | amod |
| 19 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Mrs Fox | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the gentleman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | present | a little pointed mouth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient |
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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