Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 29

‘Whose is this noble city?’ said she.

Who acts: noble city · What happens: be, say · To what, where: noble city · 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 (noble city), 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	_	6 city	punct
2	Whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 city	nmod:poss
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 city	cop
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 city	det
5	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 city	amod
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 city	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 city	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		this noble city					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	this noble city						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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