Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 25
‘Whose are these beautiful green meadows?’ said she.
Who acts: these, beautiful green meadows · What happens: be, say · To what, where: beautiful green meadows · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, beautiful green meadows), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 7 meadows | nmod:poss |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 meadows | cop |
| 4 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 meadows | nsubj |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 meadows | amod |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 meadows | amod |
| 7 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 meadows | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 meadows | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | these | beautiful green meadows | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | beautiful green meadows | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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