Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 139
And when she kept on begging, to get rid of her, she said at last, "I will throw this basinful of peas into the ash heap, and if you have picked them all out in two hours' time you shall go to the feast too."
Who acts: CINDERELLA, you · What happens: keep, beg, get, say, throw, pick · To what, where: last, basinful, ash heap, you, time · 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 (CINDERELLA, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 kept | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 begging | mark |
| 6 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 kept | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 begging | conj |
| 10 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 get | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rid | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 last | case |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 throw | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 throw | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 throw | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 throw | aux |
| 22 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 basinful | det |
| 24 | basinful | basinful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 throw | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 peas | case |
| 26 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 basinful | nmod |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 heap | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 heap | det |
| 29 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 heap | compound |
| 30 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 throw | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 picked | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 picked | cc |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 picked | mark |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 picked | aux |
| 36 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 throw | conj |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 picked | obj |
| 38 | all | all | ADV | _ | 39 out | advmod |
| 39 | out | out | ADV | _ | 36 picked | advmod |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 time | case |
| 41 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 hours | nummod |
| 42 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 time | nmod:poss |
| 43 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 42 hours | case |
| 44 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 picked | obl |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 go | nsubj |
| 46 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 go | aux |
| 47 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 time | acl:relcl |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 feast | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 feast | det |
| 50 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 go | obl |
| 51 | too | too | ADV | _ | 47 go | advmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 throw | punct |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | CINDERELLA | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | gerund | CINDERELLA not said here | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | CINDERELLA not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | CINDERELLA | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | throw in a quote | future | CINDERELLA | this basinful of peas | into the ash heap result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer basinful=Theme into heap=Result | |||
| 6 | pick a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | time | out property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Theme | |||
| 7 | go in a quote | shall | you | two hours's time not said here | to the feast | 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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