Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 110
Bring with you a skein of silk every time that you come, and I will weave a ladder with it, and when that is ready I will descend, and you will take me on your horse."
Who acts: you, time, I, that · What happens: bring, come, weave, be, descend, take · To what, where: skein, ladder, me
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, time, I, that), 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 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 you | case |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Bring | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 skein | det |
| 5 | skein | skein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bring | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 silk | case |
| 7 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skein | nmod |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bring | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 time | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 weave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 weave | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 weave | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 weave | aux |
| 17 | weave | weave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Bring | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 ladder | det |
| 19 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 weave | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 weave | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 descend | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 descend | cc |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 ready | advmod |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 ready | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 ready | cop |
| 27 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 descend | advcl |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 descend | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 descend | aux |
| 30 | descend | descend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Bring | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 take | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 take | cc |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 take | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 take | aux |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Bring | conj |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 take | obj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 horse | case |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 horse | nmod:poss |
| 39 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | a skein of silk | time | with you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent skein=Theme | ||
| 2 | come | present | every time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | weave | future | I | a ladder | with ladder | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Product | |||
| 4 | is | present | that | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | descend | future | I | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | take | future | you | me | on your horse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme on horse=Destination |
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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