Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 20

‘Why, how now, good mother,’ said the princess; ‘what are you doing there?’

Who acts: good mother, you · What happens: say, do · To what, where: princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good mother, 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 Why	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 now	advmod
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 said	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mother	punct
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mother	amod
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mother	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 mother	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 princess	det
13	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 doing	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 doing	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 doing	obj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 doing	aux
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 doing	nsubj
19	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 doing	advmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 doing	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 doing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	good mother	the princess			now		tree rules
2	do	present · progressive	you			there			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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