Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 13
Then Dummerly said, "Father, I should like to go and cut fuel too."
Who acts: Dummerly · What happens: say, like, go, cut · To what, where: Father, fuel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dummerly), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | Dummerly | Dummerly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Father | punct |
| 6 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 like | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 like | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 like | aux |
| 10 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Father | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 like | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cut | cc |
| 14 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | conj |
| 15 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cut | obj |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 cut | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Father | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Father | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Dummerly | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | like in a quote | should | Dummerly | Father not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Dummerly not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cut in a quote | infinitive | Dummerly not said here | fuel | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuel=Product |
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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