Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 27
The Dwarfs called out, "Give us some of it!" "
Who acts: Dwarfs · What happens: call out, give · To what, where: Dwarfs, some, us · 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 (Dwarfs), 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 Dwarfs | det |
| 2 | Dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Give | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Dwarfs | acl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 called | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Give | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Give | punct |
| 7 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 Give | iobj |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 Give | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 some | nmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Give | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Give | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: express | participle | the Dwarfs not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | infinitive | the Dwarfs | some | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient some=Theme |
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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