Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 116
The following morning came the Dwarf, and she began with "Caspar," "Melchior," "Balthassar," and all the odd names she knew; but at each the little Man exclaimed, "That is not my name."
Who acts: following morning, Queen, little Man, That · What happens: follow, come, begin, know, exclaim, not be · To what, where: odd names, name · 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 (following morning, Queen, little Man, That), 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 | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Dwarf | det |
| 6 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 began | nsubj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Caspar | case |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Caspar | punct |
| 13 | Caspar | Caspar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 began | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Caspar | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Caspar | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Melchior | punct |
| 17 | Melchior | Melchior | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Caspar | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Melchior | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Melchior | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Balthassar | punct |
| 21 | Balthassar | Balthassar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Caspar | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Balthassar | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Balthassar | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 names | cc |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 names | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 names | det |
| 27 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 names | amod |
| 28 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Caspar | conj |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 knew | nsubj |
| 30 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 names | acl:relcl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 exclaimed | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 exclaimed | cc |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 each | case |
| 34 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 Man | det |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Man | det |
| 36 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Man | amod |
| 37 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 38 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 name | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 name | punct |
| 41 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 name | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 name | cop |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 name | advmod |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 name | nmod:poss |
| 45 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 exclaimed | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 name | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | come | past | the following morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | Queen | with Caspar and all odd names | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with caspar=Subeventuality | ||||
| 4 | know | past | Queen | all odd names not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | exclaim speech: express | past | each little Man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not is a in a quote | present | That | my name | tree rules |
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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