Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 50
I shall go on; you can follow me; you have younger legs than I."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: go on, follow, have · To what, where: me, younger legs
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 follow | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 follow | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 follow | aux |
| 8 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | advcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 follow | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | parataxis |
| 13 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 legs | amod |
| 14 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 have | obj |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 I. | case |
| 16 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 legs | nmod |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | shall | I | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | follow | can | you | me | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | you | younger legs | than I. | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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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