Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 16
And why must I go in that paper cloak?
Who acts: I · What happens: go · To what, where: paper cloak
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 (I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 go | cc |
| 2 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 go | advmod |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cloak | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 cloak | det |
| 8 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cloak | compound |
| 9 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | must | I | that paper cloak | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cloak=Location |
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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