Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 36
Then the fiddler said, ‘That is your and my house, where we are to live.’
Who acts: fiddler, That · What happens: say, be, live · To what, where: house · 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 (fiddler, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fiddler | det |
| 3 | fiddler | fiddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 house | punct |
| 7 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 house | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 house | cop |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 house | cc |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 are | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 are | advmod |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 are | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 house | cop |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 live | mark |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 are | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 house | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the fiddler | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | That | your house | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | That not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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