Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 3
Then the widow said to the man's daughter, "Do you hear, tell your father I wish to marry him, and you shall every morning wash in milk and drink wine, but my daughter shall wash in water and drink water."
Who acts: widow, daughter · What happens: say, hear, tell, wish, marry, wash · To what, where: daughter, father, widow, milk, wine, water · 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 (widow, daughter), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 widow | det |
| 3 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 daughter | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 man | case |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hear | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 hear | punct |
| 12 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hear | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 hear | nsubj |
| 14 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hear | conj |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | iobj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 wish | nsubj |
| 20 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 marry | mark |
| 22 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wish | xcomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 marry | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 wash | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 wash | cc |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 wash | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 wash | aux |
| 28 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 wash | det |
| 29 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wash | compound |
| 30 | wash | wash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hear | parataxis |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 milk | case |
| 32 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wash | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 drink | cc |
| 34 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hear | conj |
| 35 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 drink | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 wash | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 wash | cc |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 39 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 wash | nsubj |
| 40 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 wash | aux |
| 41 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | parataxis |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 water | case |
| 43 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 wash | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 drink | cc |
| 45 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 wash | conj |
| 46 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 drink | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 wash | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 wash | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the widow | the man's daughter | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | hear in a quote | present · do-support | the man's daughter = daughter | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the man's daughter = daughter not said here | your father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | wish in a quote | present | the widow = widow | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | marry not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the widow = widow not said here | widow | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 6 | wash in a quote | shall | the man's daughter = daughter | milk | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | drink in a quote | infinitive | the man's daughter = daughter not said here | wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | ||||
| 8 | wash in a quote | shall | my daughter | water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | drink in a quote | infinitive | my daughter not said here | water | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
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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