Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 18
You walk as if you were going to school; see how cheerful everything is about you in the forest."
Who acts: You · What happens: walk, go, see, be · To what, where: school, everything, forest
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red Cap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 walk | nsubj |
| 2 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 going | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 going | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 going | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | aux |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 walk | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 school | case |
| 9 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 going | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 walk | advcl |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 cheerful | advmod |
| 13 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 everything | amod |
| 14 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 see | obj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 you | cop |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 everything | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 you | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walk | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | You | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | you | school | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | You not said here | everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the forest | about you | tree rules |
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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