Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 136
So they called Cinderella, and said, "Now, comb our hair, brush our shoes, and tie our sashes for us, for we are going to dance at the king's feast."
Who acts: sons, we · What happens: call, say, comb, brush, tie, go · To what, where: Cinderella, hair, shoes, sashes, feast · 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 (sons, we), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 comb | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 comb | punct |
| 10 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 comb | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Now | punct |
| 12 | comb | comb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hair | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 comb | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brush | punct |
| 16 | brush | brush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 comb | conj |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 brush | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tie | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tie | cc |
| 21 | tie | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sashes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sashes | sash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 tie | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 us | case |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 tie | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 going | punct |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 going | mark |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 going | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 going | aux |
| 30 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 tie | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 dance | mark |
| 32 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 going | xcomp |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 feast | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 king | det |
| 35 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 feast | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 king | case |
| 37 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dance | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | sons = son | Cinderella | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cinderella=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | sons = son not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | comb in a quote | infinitive | our hair | now | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 4 | brush in a quote | infinitive | our shoes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | |||||
| 5 | tie in a quote | present | sons = son not said here | our sashes | for us | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sash=Patient | |||
| 6 | go in a quote | present · progressive | we | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | dance in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | the king's feast | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at feast=Location |
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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