Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 115
"Then I will carry you a-pickaback," said the man, and took him up.
Who acts: man · What happens: carry, say, take up · To what, where: you, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | _ | 5 carry | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 carry | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 carry | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 carry | aux |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 carry | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pickaback | det |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 a | punct |
| 9 | pickaback | pickaback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 took | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry in a quote | future | the man = man | you | then | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme you=Beneficiary pickaback=Value | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take up | past | the man not said here | man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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