Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 49
‘What are you up to, little man?’ asked Rose-red.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: Rose
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 asked | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 What | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 What | nsubj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 What | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 2 What | case |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 What | vocative |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 red | punct |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Rose | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | little man vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Rose | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rose=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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