Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 4
So the girl went home and told her father what the woman had said, and he replied, "What shall I do?
Who acts: girl, woman, widow · What happens: go, tell, say, reply, do · To what, where: father · 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, woman, widow), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 told | cc |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | iobj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 said | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | aux |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 told | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 replied | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 replied | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 replied | nsubj |
| 18 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 21 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 do | obj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 do | nsubj |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 replied | conj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the girl | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the girl not said here | girl's father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 4 | reply speech: ask | past | widow | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | shall | widow | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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