Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 141

‘Yes,’ answered he, ‘that indeed you can.

What happens: answer · To what, where: 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: 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 answered	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 answered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 can	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 can	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 can	nsubj
10	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	12 can	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 can	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	ccomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			king				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

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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