Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 109
The Miller's daughter thought, "Who can tell if that will ever happen?" and, ignorant how else to help herself out of her trouble, she promised the Dwarf what he desired; and he immediately set about and finished the spinning.
Who acts: daughter, that, Miller · What happens: think, tell, happen, help, promise, desire · To what, where: daughter, trouble, Dwarf, spinning · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, that, Miller), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Miller | det |
| 2 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Miller | case |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
| 8 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 tell | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | aux |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 happen | mark |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 happen | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 happen | aux |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 happen | advmod |
| 15 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tell | ccomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ignorant | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ignorant | punct |
| 20 | ignorant | ignorant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thought | conj |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 else | advmod |
| 22 | else | else | ADV | _ | 20 ignorant | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 help | mark |
| 24 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ignorant | advcl |
| 25 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 help | obj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 trouble | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 trouble | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 29 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 help | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 promised | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 promised | nsubj |
| 32 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Dwarf | det |
| 34 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 promised | obj |
| 35 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 37 desired | obj |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 desired | nsubj |
| 37 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 promised | conj |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 set | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 set | cc |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 set | nsubj |
| 41 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 42 set | advmod |
| 42 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | parataxis |
| 43 | about | about | ADV | _ | 42 set | advmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 finished | cc |
| 45 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 set | conj |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 spinning | det |
| 47 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 finished | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Miller's daughter | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | happen a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | that | ever | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | the Miller's daughter not said here | daughter | daughter's trouble | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | past | daughter | the Dwarf | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent dwarf=Theme | ||||
| 6 | desire | past | Miller | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 7 | set about | past | Miller | about, immediately property | vn begin-55.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | finish | past | Miller not said here | the spinning | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality spinning=Eventuality | ||||
| 9 | trouble | daughter | nom trouble «cognition 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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