Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 6
So he asked his kinsmen, and nobles, and friends, and neighbours.
Who acts: he · What happens: ask · To what, where: kinsmen
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 (he), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 kinsmen | nmod:poss |
| 5 | kinsmen | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 asked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 nobles | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 nobles | cc |
| 8 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 asked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 friends | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 friends | cc |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 asked | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 neighbours | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 neighbours | cc |
| 14 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 asked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | he | his kinsmen | nobles obl; neighbours obl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kinsman=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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