Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 43
Her mother said, "No, my dear daughter; it is too cold, you will be frozen!" but as her girl let her have no peace, she at last consented, and made her a beautiful fur cloak to put on; she also gave her buttered bread and cooked meat to eat on her way.
Who acts: mother, forest, girl · What happens: say, be, freeze, let, have, consent · To what, where: you, mother, peace, girl, beautiful fur cloak, 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 (mother, forest, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 daughter | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 daughter | punct |
| 6 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 daughter | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 daughter | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 daughter | amod |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 cold | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cold | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cold | cop |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 cold | advmod |
| 15 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 frozen | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 frozen | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 frozen | aux:pass |
| 20 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | conj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 frozen | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 frozen | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 let | cc |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 let | mark |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 girl | nmod:poss |
| 26 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 let | nsubj |
| 27 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 frozen | conj |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 let | obj |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 let | xcomp |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 peace | det |
| 31 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 have | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 consented | punct |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 consented | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 36 consented | mark |
| 35 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 consented | amod |
| 36 | consented | consent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 made | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 made | cc |
| 39 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 made | obj |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 cloak | det |
| 42 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 cloak | amod |
| 43 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 cloak | compound |
| 44 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 made | obj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 put | mark |
| 46 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 made | advcl |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 put | compound:prt |
| 48 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 51 gave | punct |
| 49 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 gave | nsubj |
| 50 | also | also | ADV | _ | 51 gave | advmod |
| 51 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 52 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 buttered | nsubj |
| 53 | buttered | butter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 gave | ccomp |
| 54 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 buttered | obj |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 meat | cc |
| 56 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 57 meat | amod |
| 57 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 bread | conj |
| 58 | to | to | PART | _ | 59 eat | mark |
| 59 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 57 meat | acl |
| 60 | on | on | ADP | _ | 62 way | case |
| 61 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 62 way | nmod:poss |
| 62 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 eat | obl |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | girl's mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | forest | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | freeze in a quote | future · passive | you | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 4 | let | past | girl's girl | mother | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | infinitive | mother not said here | no peace | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient | ||||
| 6 | consent | participle · passive | girl | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | make | past | a beautiful fur cloak | girl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary cloak=Product | ||||
| 8 | put on | to-infinitive | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | give | past | girl | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | butter | past | girl | bread and cooked meat | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent bread=Destination | ||||
| 11 | cook | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 12 | eat | to-infinitive | girl not said here | girl's way | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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