Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 111
‘Why not?’ he replied, ‘but just show me your paws.’
Who acts: fire · What happens: reply, show · To what, where: paws, me
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 (fire), 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 replied | advmod |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 ’ | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’ | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 show | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 12 show | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 show | cc |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 show | advmod |
| 12 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 show | iobj |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 paws | nmod:poss |
| 15 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 show | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | fire | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | show | infinitive | fire not said here | your paws | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient paw=Topic |
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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