Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 6
The next was too short: ‘What a dumpling!’ said she.
Who acts: next, dumpling · What happens: be, say · 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 (next, dumpling), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 next | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 short | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 short | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 short | advmod |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 dumpling | punct |
| 8 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 10 dumpling | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dumpling | det |
| 10 | dumpling | dumpling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 dumpling | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 dumpling | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 short | parataxis |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 short | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the next | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | what dumpling | 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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