Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 41
Then her curiosity and desire were still more excited, and at last she said, "Take me to the ship; I will go myself and look at your master's treasure."
Who acts: curiosity, daughter, master · What happens: be, say, take, go, look, treasure · To what, where: last, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curiosity, daughter, master), 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 | 9 excited | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 curiosity | nmod:poss |
| 3 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 excited | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 desire | cc |
| 5 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 curiosity | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 excited | cop |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 excited | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 excited | advmod |
| 9 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | obl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 excited | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Take | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Take | punct |
| 18 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 Take | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 ship | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ship | det |
| 22 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Take | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 go | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 go | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 go | aux |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 excited | parataxis |
| 27 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 26 go | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 look | cc |
| 29 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 go | conj |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 treasure | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 master | nmod:poss |
| 32 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 master | case |
| 34 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 look | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 excited | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 excited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | daughter's curiosity and desire | then; still | excited property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | daughter | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | daughter | to the ship | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | future | daughter | daughter | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | look in a quote | infinitive | daughter not said here | at your master's treasure | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at treasure=Theme | ||||
| 6 | treasure in a quote | your master | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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