Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 7
The fourth was too pale, and she called him ‘Wallface.’
Who acts: fourth, maypole · What happens: be, call · To what, where: dumpling · 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 (fourth, maypole), 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 fourth | det |
| 2 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pale | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pale | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 pale | advmod |
| 5 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 called | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | nsubj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pale | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | obj |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wallface | punct |
| 12 | Wallface | Wallface | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pale | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 pale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fourth | pale property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | past | maypole | dumpling | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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