Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 84
Oh, father," cried Thumbling, "I will soon bring the cart; rely on that; it shall be in the forest at the appointed time."
Who acts: father, I, cart · What happens: cry, bring, rely, be, appoint · To what, where: cart, forest
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, cart), 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 | _ | 3 father | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Thumbling | Thumbling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bring | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bring | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bring | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 bring | aux |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 bring | advmod |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cried | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cart | det |
| 15 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bring | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 rely | punct |
| 17 | rely | rely | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 bring | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 that | case |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 rely | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 forest | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 forest | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 forest | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 forest | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 forest | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 forest | det |
| 26 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 time | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 time | det |
| 29 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 time | amod |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 forest | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | father | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring | future | I | the cart | soon property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cart=Theme | |||
| 3 | rely | infinitive | I not said here | on that | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on that=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | shall | cart | the forest | time | tree rules | |||
| 5 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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