Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 38
Soon she came to the apple-tree, which cried, "Oh, shake me! shake me! we apples are all ripe!"
Who acts: thing, apple tree, we · What happens: come, cry, shake, be · To what, where: apple tree · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, apple tree, we), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 ripe | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 6 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 apple | punct |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tree | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shake | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 shake | punct |
| 14 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 16 shake | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Oh | punct |
| 16 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 shake | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 shake | punct |
| 19 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 shake | conj |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 shake | obj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 ripe | nsubj |
| 23 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 we | appos |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 ripe | cop |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 ripe | advmod |
| 26 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 ripe | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 ripe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | thing | the apple tree | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the apple tree | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | shake in a quote | infinitive | the apple tree = tree | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||||
| 4 | shake in a quote | infinitive | the apple tree = tree | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | we | all, ripe property | tree rules |
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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