Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 198

‘I am a poor child,’ said she, ‘that has lost both father and mother.’

Who acts: I, poor child · What happens: be, say, lose · To what, where: poor child, 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 (I, poor child), 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	_	6 child	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 child	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 child	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 child	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 child	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lost	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lost	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 lost	punct
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lost	nsubj:pass
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 lost	aux
15	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	ccomp
16	both	both	CCONJ	_	17 father	cc:preconj
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lost	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 mother	cc
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 father	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	I	a poor child	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a poor child		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lose	present · perfect · passive		truth	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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