Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 127
You little imp, how will you help us?" they said. "
Who acts: You, thieves · What happens: imp, help, say · To what, where: 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 (You, thieves), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 imp | nsubj |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 imp | amod |
| 3 | imp | imp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 help | punct |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 help | advmod |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 help | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 help | nsubj |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 imp | appos |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 help | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 help | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 imp | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imp | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | help | future | you | us | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | thieves = thief | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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