Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 69
He answered: ‘Ah, Lord, I cannot; I have a bad sore place on my head.’
Who acts: son, I · What happens: answer, have · To what, where: Lord, bad sore place, head
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 (son, I), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lord | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lord | punct |
| 5 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 Lord | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lord | punct |
| 7 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 can | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 can | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 Lord | nmod |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 can | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 answered | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 16 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 place | amod |
| 17 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 place | amod |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 place | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | son | Lord | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I | a bad sore place | my head | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
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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