Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 110
They asked, too: “Under what hedge have you been lying sleeping all the time?”
Who acts: others, hedge · What happens: ask, have, lie, sleep · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, hedge), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 too | punct |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 asked | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 what | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 what | punct |
| 7 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 8 what | case |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 9 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 lying | aux |
| 13 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 lying | xcomp |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 time | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sleeping | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | others = other | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | hedge | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lie in a quote | participle · progressive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | sleep in a quote | gerund | time | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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