Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 46
‘Countryman,’ said the witch, ‘who are you? and what is your business?’
Who acts: Countryman, you · What happens: say, be · To what, where: witch, business · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Countryman, 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 | _ | 2 Countryman | punct |
| 2 | Countryman | countryman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Countryman | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Countryman | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 witch | det |
| 7 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 who | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 who | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 said | parataxis |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 who | cop |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 who | nsubj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 business | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 business | cc |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 business | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 business | cop |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 business | nmod:poss |
| 18 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | parataxis |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 business | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 business | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Countryman | the witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent witch=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | your business | 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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