Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 114
The Queen began to weep and groan so much that the Dwarf pitied her, and said, "I will leave you three days to consider; if you in that time discover my name you shall keep your child."
Who acts: Queen, Dwarf, I, you, name, my · What happens: begin, weep, groan, pity, say, leave · To what, where: Queen, you, child · 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 (Queen, Dwarf, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 weep | mark |
| 5 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 groan | cc |
| 7 | groan | groan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 weep | conj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 groan | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 pitied | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Dwarf | det |
| 12 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 pitied | nsubj |
| 13 | pitied | pity | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 groan | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pitied | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 leave | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 leave | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 leave | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 leave | aux |
| 22 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 leave | obj |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 days | nummod |
| 25 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 leave | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 consider | mark |
| 27 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 days | acl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 discover | punct |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 discover | mark |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 discover | nsubj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 time | case |
| 32 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 time | det |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 discover | obl |
| 34 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | parataxis |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 name | nmod:poss |
| 36 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 keep | nsubj |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 keep | nsubj |
| 38 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 keep | aux |
| 39 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 discover | ccomp |
| 40 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 child | nmod:poss |
| 41 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 keep | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the Queen | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | weep | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | groan | infinitive | the Queen not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pity | past | the Dwarf | Queen | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | leave in a quote | future | I | you | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 7 | consider in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | discover a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | you | time | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 9 | keep in a quote | shall | my name | your child | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||||
| 10 | name in a quote | my | nom name «communication 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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