Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 48
Oh, sweep it yourself," she replied; "I am not your servant."
Who acts: you, girl, I · What happens: sweep, reply, not be · To what, where: broom, servant
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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 sweep | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | sweep | sweep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sweep | obj |
| 5 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 sweep | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sweep | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 servant | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 servant | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 servant | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 servant | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 servant | advmod |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 servant | nmod:poss |
| 16 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sweep | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sweep | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sweep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | imperative | you not said here | broom | yourself obl | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | girl | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is a | present | I | your servant | tree rules |
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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