Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 42
"Just see her arrogance," said the step-sister, "to throw away money in that way!" but in her heart she was jealous, and wished to go into the forest, too, to seek strawberries.
Who acts: step sister, girl · What happens: see, say, throw away, be, wish, go · To what, where: arrogance, money, way, heart, forest, strawberries · 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 (step sister, 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 | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 see | advmod |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 arrogance | nmod:poss |
| 5 | arrogance | arrogance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sister | det |
| 10 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sister | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 step | punct |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 throw | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 throw | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 throw | mark |
| 16 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | away | away | ADP | _ | 16 throw | compound:prt |
| 18 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 throw | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 way | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 throw | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 throw | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 throw | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 jealous | cc |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 heart | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 heart | nmod:poss |
| 27 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 jealous | obl |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 jealous | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 jealous | cop |
| 30 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wished | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 wished | cc |
| 33 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 go | mark |
| 35 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 wished | xcomp |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 forest | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 forest | det |
| 38 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 go | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 too | punct |
| 40 | too | too | ADV | _ | 35 go | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 seek | punct |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 seek | mark |
| 43 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 go | conj |
| 44 | strawberries | strawberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 seek | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | infinitive | girl's arrogance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arrogance=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the step sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | throw away in a quote | to-infinitive | money | that way | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent money=Theme in way=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is | past | girl | girl's heart | jealous property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | wish | past | the step sister not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the step sister not said here | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | seek | to-infinitive | the step sister not said here | strawberries | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strawberry=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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