Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 176
Then the mother said, "Never mind, cut it off.
Who acts: mother · What happens: say, not mind, cut off · To what, where: room · 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 (mother), 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 | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mother | det |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mind | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 mind | punct |
| 7 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 mind | advmod |
| 8 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cut | punct |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 mind | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cut | obj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 cut | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the mother | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not mind in a quote | infinitive | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | cut off in a quote | infinitive | room | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality |
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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