Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 68
Now it is too late to go back to the house, but since you brought the door here you may carry it onward."
Who acts: it, you · What happens: be, go back, bring, carry · To what, where: door
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 (it, 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 | 5 late | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 late | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 late | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 late | advmod |
| 5 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 late | csubj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 carry | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 carry | cc |
| 14 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 16 brought | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | nsubj |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 carry | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | obj |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 brought | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 carry | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 carry | aux |
| 22 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 late | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 carry | obj |
| 24 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 22 carry | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 late | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 late | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | now | late property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go back | to-infinitive | to the house result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | |||||
| 3 | bring | past | you | the door | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent door=Theme | |||
| 4 | carry | may | you | door | onward property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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