Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 69
"The door I will willingly carry," replied Catherine, "but the apples and the vinegar will be too heavy, so I shall hang them on the door and make that carry them!"
Who acts: door, Catherine, apples, that · What happens: carry, reply, be, hang, make · To what, where: apples, door, that · 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 (door, Catherine, apples, that), 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 | _ | 7 carry | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carry | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 carry | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 carry | aux |
| 6 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 7 carry | advmod |
| 7 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 carry | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 carry | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 heavy | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 apples | det |
| 16 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 heavy | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 vinegar | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 vinegar | det |
| 19 | vinegar | vinegar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 apples | conj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 heavy | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 heavy | cop |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 heavy | advmod |
| 23 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 replied | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hang | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 hang | advmod |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 hang | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 hang | aux |
| 28 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 heavy | parataxis |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 hang | obj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 door | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 door | det |
| 32 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hang | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 make | cc |
| 34 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 hang | conj |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 make | obj |
| 36 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 make | xcomp |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 carry | obj |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 heavy | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 heavy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry in a quote | future | the door | willingly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: express | past | Catherine | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | the apples and the vinegar | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hang in a quote | shall | Catherine | apples = apple | the door | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on door=Destination | |||
| 5 | make in a quote | infinitive | Catherine not said here | that | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | carry in a quote | infinitive | that not said here | apples = apple | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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