Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 49
When she saw that they would not give her anything she went out at the door, and the three Dwarfs said to each other, "What shall we give her?
Who acts: girl, Dwarfs, three Dwarfs, we · What happens: see, not give, go out, say, give · To what, where: anything, door, each, girl · 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, three Dwarfs, we), 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 | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 give | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 give | advmod |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 anything | nmod:poss |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 give | obj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 anything | acl:relcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 door | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Dwarfs | det |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 Dwarfs | nummod |
| 21 | Dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 each | case |
| 24 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 22 said | obl |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 each | fixed |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 give | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 give | punct |
| 28 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 give | obj |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 give | aux |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 give | nsubj |
| 31 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | ccomp |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 give | iobj |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not give | would | Dwarfs = dwarf | anything | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | girl | the door | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | the three Dwarfs | each | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | give in a quote | shall | we | girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=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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