Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 197
‘Then let Cat-skin come up,’ said the king: and when she came he said to her, ‘Who are you?’
Who acts: truth, king, you · What happens: let, come up, say, come, be · To what, where: Cat skin, king, truth · 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 (truth, king, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 skin | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Cat | punct |
| 6 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obj |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 came | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | advcl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Who | punct |
| 24 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 Who | punct |
| 25 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 said | parataxis |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 Who | cop |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 Who | nsubj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | Cat skin | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come up | present | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come | past | truth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | king | truth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | you | tree rules |
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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