Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 201
‘But how did you get the ring that was in the soup?’ asked the king.
Who acts: you, ring · What happens: get, be, ask · To what, where: ring, soup, king · 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 (you, ring), 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 get | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 get | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 get | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ring | det |
| 8 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 soup | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 soup | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 soup | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 soup | det |
| 13 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ring | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | you | the ring | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the ring | the soup | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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