Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 105
Father, do give me away; I will soon come back again."
Who acts: Father, I · What happens: give away, come back · To what, where: me
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 (Father, I), 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 | Father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Father | punct |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 give | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 come | advmod |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | conj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 come | advmod |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 come | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give away | infinitive · do-support | Father | me | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | come back | future | I | again | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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