Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 99
Pay great attention when he shakes your hand," said the eldest, "and you will see his beautiful claws!" "
Who acts: you, BEARSKIN · What happens: pay, shake, say, see · To what, where: great attention, hand, beautiful claws · 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 (you, BEARSKIN), 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 | Pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 attention | amod |
| 3 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pay | obj |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 shakes | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 shakes | nsubj |
| 6 | shakes | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pay | advcl |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shakes | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pay | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 eldest | det |
| 13 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eldest | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 see | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 claws | nmod:poss |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 claws | amod |
| 22 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 see | obj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | imperative | you not said here | great attention | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shake | present | BEARSKIN | your hand | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | see | future | you | BEARSKIN's beautiful claws | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer claw=Stimulus |
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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