Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 81
Then the waggoner asked: ‘From whence do you come?’
Who acts: waggoner, you · What happens: ask, come · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (waggoner, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 asked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 waggoner | det |
| 3 | waggoner | waggoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 7 | From | from | ADP | _ | 8 whence | case |
| 8 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 come | obl |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the waggoner | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | present · do-support | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from whence=Initial_Location |
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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