Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 64
Do as you please," said the old woman, "but at any rate take this pretty apple; I will make you a present of it." "
Who acts: you, I · What happens: say, take, make · To what, where: apple, rate, present, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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, I), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 make | aux |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 said | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 please | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 please | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 make | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 woman | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 woman | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 take | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 rate | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 rate | det |
| 16 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obl |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 apple | det |
| 19 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 20 apple | advmod |
| 20 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 make | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 make | aux |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 make | obj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 present | det |
| 27 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 present | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | you not said here | this apple | any rate | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent apple=Theme at rate=Asset | |||
| 3 | make | present · do-support | I | a present of apple | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary present=Product |
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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