Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 108
Oh, just set me on the rim of your hat, and then I can walk backwards and forwards and look at the country, and still not fall down."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: set, walk, look, not fall down · To what, where: me, rim
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 (you, 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 set | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 set | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 rim | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rim | det |
| 8 | rim | rim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hat | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hat | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rim | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 walk | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 walk | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 walk | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 walk | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 walk | aux |
| 17 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 set | conj |
| 18 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 17 walk | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 forwards | cc |
| 20 | forwards | forwards | ADV | _ | 18 backwards | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 look | cc |
| 22 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 walk | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 country | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 country | det |
| 25 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 look | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fall | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fall | cc |
| 28 | still | still | ADV | _ | 30 fall | advmod |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 fall | advmod |
| 30 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 walk | advcl |
| 31 | down | down | ADP | _ | 30 fall | compound:prt |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | imperative | you not said here | me | the rim of your hat | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme on rim=Destination | |||
| 2 | walk | can | I | then | backwards property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | look | infinitive | I not said here | at the country | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at country=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not fall down | infinitive | I not said here | still | vn occur-48.3 «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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