Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 30
"Ah!" she answered, "I must, seek a basketful of strawberries, and I dare not return home until I can take them with me."
Who acts: girl · What happens: answer, seek, return, take · To what, where: basketful, Dwarfs · 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 (girl), 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 | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 6 answered | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seek | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 seek | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 must | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 seek | aux |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 must | punct |
| 12 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 basketful | det |
| 14 | basketful | basketful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seek | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 strawberries | case |
| 16 | strawberries | strawberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 basketful | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 return | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 return | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 return | nsubj |
| 20 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 return | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 dare | advmod |
| 22 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seek | parataxis |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 return | advmod |
| 24 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 27 take | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 take | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 take | aux |
| 27 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 return | advcl |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 take | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 take | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | girl | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | seek in a quote | must | girl not said here | a basketful of strawberries | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basketful=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return in a quote | present | girl | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | can | girl | Dwarfs = dwarf | with girl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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