Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 35

‘What a paltry place!’ said she; ‘to whom does that little dirty hole belong?’

Who acts: paltry place, that · What happens: say, do, be · To what, where: little dirty hole · 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 (paltry place, that), 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 place	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 place	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 place	det
4	paltry	paltry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 place	amod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 place	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 place	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 does	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 does	punct
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 whom	case
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 does	nsubj
14	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 hole	nsubj
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hole	amod
17	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hole	amod
18	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 does	obj
19	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 hole	cop
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 does	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 does	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	what paltry place		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	present			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	that	little dirty hole	tree rules

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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