Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 199
‘How came you in my palace?’ asked he.
What happens: come, ask · To what, where: you, palace, 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 | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 came | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 palace | nmod:poss |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | you | my palace | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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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