Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 47
Let me lace them up with one of my nice new laces."
Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, lace up · To what, where: me, ladies
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | lace | lace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lace | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 lace | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 lace | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 laces | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 laces | nmod:poss |
| 10 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 laces | amod |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 laces | amod |
| 12 | laces | lace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lace up | infinitive | me not said here | ladies = lady | with one of my nice new laces | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with one=Instrument |
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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