Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 46
Give us some of that," exclaimed the Dwarfs; but she answered, "I have not got enough for myself, so how can I give any away?"
Who acts: you, girl, I · What happens: give, exclaim, answer, not get, give away · To what, where: some, us, Dwarfs, any · 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 (you, girl, I), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 1 Give | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 some | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Dwarfs | det |
| 10 | Dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 exclaimed | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 answered | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 answered | nsubj |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 got | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 got | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 got | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 got | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 got | advmod |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 answered | ccomp |
| 21 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 20 got | advmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 myself | case |
| 23 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 got | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 give | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 give | advmod |
| 26 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 give | advmod |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 give | aux |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 give | nsubj |
| 29 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | conj |
| 30 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 give | obj |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 give | advmod |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | some | us | tree rules | |||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | you not said here | the Dwarfs | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dwarf=Topic | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | girl | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not get | present · perfect | I | for myself; enough property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for myself=Source | ||||
| 5 | give away | can | I | any | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent any=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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