Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 32
‘That is no business of mine,’ said the fiddler: ‘why should you wish for another husband?
Who acts: That, business, you · What happens: be, say, wish · To what, where: business, fiddler · 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 (That, business, 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 | _ | 5 business | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 business | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 business | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 business | det |
| 5 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mine | case |
| 7 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 business | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 business | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 business | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fiddler | det |
| 12 | fiddler | fiddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 wish | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 wish | punct |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 wish | advmod |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 wish | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 wish | nsubj |
| 18 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 husband | case |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 husband | det |
| 21 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wish | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | no business | of mine | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | no business | the fiddler | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wish | should | you | for another husband | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for husband=Theme |
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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