Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 56
"It was silly of you to do so," said Fred, "to grease the roads with butter, and to roll cheese down the hill!"
Who acts: cheese, Fred · What happens: be, do, say, grease, roll · To what, where: roads, cheese, hill · 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 (cheese, Fred), 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 | _ | 4 silly | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 silly | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 silly | cop |
| 4 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 silly | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 silly | advcl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 do | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 silly | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 silly | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Fred | Fred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grease | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 grease | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 grease | mark |
| 17 | grease | grease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 roads | det |
| 19 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 grease | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 butter | case |
| 21 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grease | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 roll | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 roll | cc |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 roll | mark |
| 25 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 grease | conj |
| 26 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 roll | obj |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 29 hill | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hill | det |
| 29 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 roll | obl |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 grease | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 grease | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | cheese | of you; silly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | cheese not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | Fred | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | grease in a quote | to-infinitive | the roads | with butter | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent road=Destination with butter=Theme | ||||
| 5 | roll in a quote | to-infinitive | cheese | the hill | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cheese=Theme down hill=Trajectory |
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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