Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 47
When she had finished they said, "You have a broom there, go and sweep the back door clean." "
Who acts: girl, Dwarfs, You · What happens: finish, say, have, go, sweep · To what, where: broom, back door · 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, Dwarfs, You), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 9 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 broom | det |
| 12 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 have | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 have | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sweep | cc |
| 17 | sweep | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 door | det |
| 19 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 door | compound |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sweep | obj |
| 21 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sweep | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | girl | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Dwarfs = dwarf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | You | a broom | there | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent broom=Patient | |||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sweep in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | the back door | clean property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Trajectory |
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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