Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 40
"Only place in it one of my young toads," replied the large toad, "and then you can decide how to use it."
Who acts: place, you · What happens: reply, decide, use · To what, where: large toad, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, 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 | _ | 3 place | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 place | advmod |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 place | nmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 place | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 toads | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 toads | nmod:poss |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 toads | amod |
| 10 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 place | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 place | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 toad | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 toad | amod |
| 16 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 decide | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 decide | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 decide | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 decide | aux |
| 23 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 replied | conj |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 use | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 use | mark |
| 26 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 decide | ccomp |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 use | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 decide | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 decide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | place in trifle | the large toad | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent toad=Topic | ||||
| 2 | decide in a quote | can | you | then | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | use not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | place | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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