Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 134
‘Are you the knight who came every day to the festival, always in different colours, and who caught the three golden apples?’ asked the king.
Who acts: you, knight · What happens: be, come, catch, ask · To what, where: knight, festival, three golden apples, king
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 (you, knight), 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 knight | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 knight | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 knight | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 knight | det |
| 5 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knight | acl:relcl |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 festival | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 festival | det |
| 12 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 colours | punct |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 colours | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 colours | case |
| 16 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 colours | amod |
| 17 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 festival | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 caught | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 caught | cc |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 caught | nsubj |
| 21 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 apples | det |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 apples | nummod |
| 24 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 apples | amod |
| 25 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 caught | obj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 knight | punct |
| 28 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 king | det |
| 30 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 asked | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | the knight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the knight | the festival in different colours | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to festival=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | catch | past | the three golden apples | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the knight | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=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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