Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 94
That can't be right," said the other, "we will follow the cart and see where it stops."
Who acts: That, we, cart · What happens: not be, say, follow, see, stop · To what, where: other, cart · 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 (That, we, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 right | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 right | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 right | cop |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 right | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 other | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 follow | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 follow | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 follow | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 follow | aux |
| 15 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cart | det |
| 17 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 follow | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 see | cc |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 follow | conj |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 stops | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stops | nsubj |
| 22 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | can | That | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | That not said here | the other | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | future | we | the cart | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | we not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | stop | present | cart | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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