Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 85
When they hear what you have done for me they will not refuse you.
Who acts: daughters, you · What happens: hear, do, not refuse · To what, where: you · 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 (daughters, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 hear | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 refuse | advcl |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 done | obj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 done | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 hear | ccomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 done | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 refuse | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 refuse | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 refuse | advmod |
| 13 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 refuse | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 refuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | daughters = daughter | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | present · perfect | you | for me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not refuse | future | daughters = daughter | you | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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