Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 101
They went to the peasant and said, "Sell us the little man.
Who acts: sons · What happens: go, say, sell · To what, where: little man, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 peasant | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 peasant | det |
| 5 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sell | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sell | punct |
| 10 | Sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Sell | iobj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Sell | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | sons = son | to the peasant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to peasant=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | sons = son not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sell in a quote | infinitive | the little man | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient man=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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