Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 32
But when she was gone out of doors the three Dwarfs said one to another, "What shall we give her, because she is so gentle and good, and has shared her bread with us?"
Who acts: three Dwarfs, we, girl · What happens: go out, say, give, be, share · To what, where: girl, one, doors, bread · 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 (three Dwarfs, we, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 gone | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux:pass |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | advcl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 doors | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 doors | case |
| 8 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Dwarfs | det |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 Dwarfs | nummod |
| 11 | Dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 said | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 another | case |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 give | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 give | punct |
| 18 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 give | obj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 give | aux |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 give | nsubj |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 give | iobj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gentle | punct |
| 24 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 28 gentle | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 gentle | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 gentle | cop |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 gentle | advmod |
| 28 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 give | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 good | cc |
| 30 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 gentle | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 shared | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 shared | cc |
| 33 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 shared | aux |
| 34 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 give | parataxis |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 bread | nmod:poss |
| 36 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shared | obj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 us | case |
| 38 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 shared | obl |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 34 shared | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past · passive | girl | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the three Dwarfs | one | doors | to another | tree rules | ||
| 3 | give in a quote | shall | we | girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | girl | gentle property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | girl not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | share in a quote | present · perfect | girl's bread | with us | tree rules |
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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