Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 79
‘Oh, no,’ replied the boy, ‘the wild ones have more scent, and will please her better.’
Who acts: wild ones · What happens: reply, have, please · To what, where: boy, more scent
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 (wild ones), 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ones | det |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ones | amod |
| 14 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 scent | amod |
| 17 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 please | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 please | cc |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 please | aux |
| 21 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 have | conj |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 better | nmod:poss |
| 23 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 please | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the boy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent boy=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | present | the wild ones | more scent | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | please | future | the wild ones not said here | good property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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