Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 195
But the king said, ‘That is not true; it was better done than you could do it.’
Who acts: king, That, you · What happens: say, not be, be, do · To what, where: soup · 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 (king, That, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 true | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 true | punct |
| 7 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 true | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 true | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 true | advmod |
| 10 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 better | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 better | expl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 better | cop |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 said | parataxis |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 better | xcomp |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 better | csubj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | That | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | participle | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | do | could | you | soup | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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