Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 148
And when Cinderella begged very hard to go, she said, "If you can in one hour's time pick two of these dishes of pease out of the ashes, you shall go too."
Who acts: Cinderella, dishes, you · What happens: beg, go, say, pick, pease · To what, where: two, ashes · 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, dishes, 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 | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 begged | advmod |
| 3 | Cinderella | Cinderella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | nsubj |
| 4 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 hard | advmod |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 begged | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hard | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 begged | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pick | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 pick | punct |
| 14 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 can | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 can | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 pick | aux |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 hour | nummod |
| 19 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 time | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 hour | case |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 can | obl |
| 22 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 pick | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 dishes | case |
| 25 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 dishes | det |
| 26 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 two | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 28 pease | mark |
| 28 | pease | pease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 dishes | acl |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 ashes | case |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 ashes | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 ashes | det |
| 32 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 pease | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 go | punct |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 go | nsubj |
| 35 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 go | aux |
| 36 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 pick | conj |
| 37 | too | too | ADV | _ | 36 go | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 pick | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 pick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | Cinderella | hard property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | Cinderella not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | CINDERELLA | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | pick in a quote | can | two of this dishes | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient | |||||
| 5 | pease in a quote | infinitive | this dishes not said here | the ashes | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go in a quote | shall | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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