Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 85

‘What is it that you are always muttering between your teeth?’

Who acts: you · What happens: be, mutter · To what, where: figure

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 (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 What	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 it	cop
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 What	nsubj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 muttering	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 muttering	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 muttering	aux
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 muttering	advmod
9	muttering	mutter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 What	advcl
10	between	between	ADP	_	12 teeth	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 teeth	nmod:poss
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 muttering	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 muttering	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		figure					tree rules
2	mutter speech: assert	present · progressive	you					between your teeth; always property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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