Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 52
Now," said he, "give me quickly what you brought."
Who acts: I., you · What happens: say, give, bring · To what, where: me · 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 (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 8 give | advmod |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 brought | obj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | nsubj |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | I. | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | me | quickly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
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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