Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 4
"There is a sword for you to use to defend yourself on your journeyings."
Who acts: sword, you, your · What happens: be, use, defend, journey · To what, where: yourself, journeyings
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, you, your), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sword | det |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 use | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 use | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 use | mark |
| 9 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sword | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 defend | mark |
| 11 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 use | advcl |
| 12 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 defend | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 journeyings | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 journeyings | nmod:poss |
| 15 | journeyings | journeying | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 defend | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | a sword | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use in a quote | to-infinitive | you | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | defend in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | yourself | your journeyings | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | journey in a quote | your | nom journeying «act transitive»: poss=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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