Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 34
The second said, "I grant that a piece of gold shall fall out of her mouth for every word she speaks."
Who acts: second, piece, girl · What happens: say, grant, fall, speak · To what, where: mouth, word · 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 (second, piece, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 second | det |
| 2 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grant | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 grant | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 grant | nsubj |
| 7 | grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 fall | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 piece | det |
| 10 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fall | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gold | case |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 piece | nmod |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 fall | aux |
| 14 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 grant | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 mouth | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 mouth | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fall | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 word | case |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 word | det |
| 21 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fall | obl |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 speaks | nsubj |
| 23 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 word | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the second | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | grant in a quote | present | the second = second | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall in a quote | shall | a piece of gold | girl's mouth | for every word | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out mouth=Location | |||
| 4 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | girl | every word not said here | 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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