Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 40
"I have to go to the woods to protect my treasure from the bad dwarfs.
Who acts: Snow White, my · What happens: have, go, protect, treasure · To what, where: woods, treasure
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow White, my), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 woods | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woods | det |
| 8 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 go | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 protect | mark |
| 10 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | advcl |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 12 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 protect | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 dwarfs | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dwarfs | det |
| 15 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dwarfs | amod |
| 16 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 protect | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Snow White = white | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | Snow White = white not said here | the woods | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | protect in a quote | to-infinitive | Snow White = white not said here | my treasure | from the bad dwarfs | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent treasure=Beneficiary from dwarf=Theme | |||
| 4 | treasure in a quote | my | nom treasure «possession 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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