Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 52
The second said, "I grant that at every word she speaks a toad shall spring out of her mouth."
Who acts: second, first, toad · What happens: say, grant, speak, spring out · To what, where: that, word, mouth · 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 (second, first, toad), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 second | det |
| 2 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grant | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 grant | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 grant | nsubj |
| 7 | grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 grant | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 word | case |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 word | det |
| 11 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grant | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 speaks | nsubj |
| 13 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 word | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 toad | det |
| 15 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spring | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 spring | aux |
| 17 | spring | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 speaks | ccomp |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 mouth | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 mouth | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spring | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the second | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | grant in a quote | present | the second = second | that | every word | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent that=Theme | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | first | every word not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spring out in a quote | shall | a toad | first's mouth | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mouth=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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