Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 63
Butter and cheese will not please; I will bring with me a bag of dried apples and a mug of vinegar to drink."
Who acts: Butter · What happens: not bring, dry, drink · To what, where: bag
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 (Butter), 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 | Butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 cheese | cc |
| 3 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Butter | conj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 bring | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 bring | advmod |
| 6 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 10 bring | discourse |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 please | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 bring | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 bring | aux |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 bring | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bag | det |
| 14 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 apples | case |
| 16 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 apples | amod |
| 17 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bag | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mug | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 mug | det |
| 20 | mug | mug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 apples | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 vinegar | case |
| 22 | vinegar | vinegar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mug | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 drink | mark |
| 24 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 mug | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bring | future | Butter and cheese | a bag of dried apples and a mug of vinegar | with me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | |||
| 2 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | Butter and cheese not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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