Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 48
"Drip, drap, drop, Will the milking soon stop?"
Who acts: you, milking · What happens: drap, drop, stop · To what, where: Drip
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 (you, milking), 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 | _ | 4 drap | punct |
| 2 | Drip | drip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drap | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Drip | punct |
| 4 | drap | drap | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 drop | punct |
| 6 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 drap | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stop | punct |
| 8 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 stop | aux |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 milking | det |
| 10 | milking | milking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stop | nsubj |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 stop | advmod |
| 12 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 drap | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 drap | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 drap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drap in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Drip | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drop in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stop in a quote | future | the milking | soon property | 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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