Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 90
The grizzly bear would have pleased me better who came to see us once, and gave himself out as a man, for he wore a hussar's hat, and had white gloves on besides."
Who acts: grizzly bear, bear · What happens: have, come, see, give out, wear · To what, where: me, us, bear, hat, white gloves, besides
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 (grizzly bear, bear), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bear | det |
| 2 | grizzly | grizzly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bear | amod |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 me | amod |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | obl |
| 8 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 came | advmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 came | xcomp |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 see | obj |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 see | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 gave | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 gave | compound:prt |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 man | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wore | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 wore | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 wore | nsubj |
| 26 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 gave | parataxis |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 hussar | det |
| 28 | hussar | hussar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hat | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 hussar | case |
| 30 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wore | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 had | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 had | cc |
| 33 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 34 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 gloves | amod |
| 35 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 had | obj |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 besides | case |
| 37 | besides | besides | X | Foreign=Yes | 33 had | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | the grizzly bear | me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past | well property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | us | once property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | give out | past | bear | as a man | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wear | past | bear | a hussar's hat | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | past | white gloves | besides | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glove=Patient |
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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