Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 65
I leave the cuckoos to pay you for what you did."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: leave, pay, do · To what, where: cuckoos, you
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 (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cuckoos | det |
| 4 | cuckoos | cuckoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 leave | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pay | mark |
| 6 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 leave | advcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 pay | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 what | case |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 pay | obl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leave | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | I | the cuckoos | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cuckoo=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pay | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Asset for what=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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