Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 119
"'To-day I stew, and then I'll bake, To-morrow I shall the Queen's child take; Ah! how famous it is that nobody knows That my name is Rumpelstiltskin.'"
Who acts: messenger, nobody, name, my · What happens: stew, bake, take, be, know, name · To what, where: morrow, Rumpelstiltskin · 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 (messenger, nobody, name, 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 | _ | 7 stew | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 stew | punct |
| 3 | To | to | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 To | punct |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stew | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 stew | nsubj |
| 7 | stew | stew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bake | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bake | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 bake | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bake | nsubj |
| 12 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 bake | aux |
| 13 | bake | bake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stew | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 morrow | punct |
| 15 | To | to | ADP | _ | 17 morrow | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 To | punct |
| 17 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bake | conj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 take | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 take | aux |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Queen | det |
| 21 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 child | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Queen | case |
| 23 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | nsubj |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 morrow | acl:relcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 famous | punct |
| 26 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 29 famous | discourse |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 Ah | punct |
| 28 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 famous | advmod |
| 29 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stew | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 famous | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 famous | cop |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 knows | mark |
| 33 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 34 knows | nsubj |
| 34 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 famous | advcl |
| 35 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 name | det |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 name | nmod:poss |
| 37 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Rumpelstiltskin | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 Rumpelstiltskin | cop |
| 39 | Rumpelstiltskin | Rumpelstiltskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 knows | ccomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stew | punct |
| 41 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 stew | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 stew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stew in a quote | present | the messenger = messenger | day | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bake in a quote | future | the messenger = messenger | then | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | shall | the messenger = messenger | morrow not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morrow=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | messenger | famous property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know in a quote | present | nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | my name | Rumpelstiltskin | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | 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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