Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 102
Then he answered: ‘Then I ask for a fire, a turning lathe, and a cutting-board with the knife.’
Who acts: king, I · What happens: answer, ask, turn · To what, where: cutting board
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, I), 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 | 3 answered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
| 6 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 ask | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ask | nsubj |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | parataxis |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 fire | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fire | det |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ask | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lathe | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lathe | det |
| 14 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 lathe | amod |
| 15 | lathe | lathe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fire | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 board | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 board | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 board | det |
| 19 | cutting | cutting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 board | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 cutting | punct |
| 21 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ask | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 knife | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 knife | det |
| 24 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 board | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | king | then | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | I | a cutting board with the knife | then | for a fire and a turning lathe | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 3 | turn | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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