Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 6
At last, as he could come to no conclusion, he drew off his boot and said: "Take this boot, which has a hole in the sole, and go with it out of doors and hang it on the great nail and then pour water into it.
Who acts: widow, boot · What happens: come, draw off, say, take, have, go · To what, where: last, boot, hole, sole, doors, great nail · 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 (widow, boot), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 come | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 conclusion | case |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 conclusion | det |
| 10 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drew | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 drew | nsubj |
| 13 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | parataxis |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 drew | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 boot | nmod:poss |
| 16 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drew | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 drew | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 Take | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Take | punct |
| 21 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 boot | det |
| 23 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Take | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 has | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 has | nsubj |
| 26 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 boot | acl:relcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 hole | det |
| 28 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 has | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 sole | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sole | det |
| 31 | sole | sole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hole | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 go | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 go | cc |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 Take | conj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 it | case |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 go | obl |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 39 doors | case |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 doors | case |
| 39 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 go | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 hang | cc |
| 41 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 Take | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 hang | obj |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 nail | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 nail | det |
| 45 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 nail | amod |
| 46 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 hang | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 pour | cc |
| 48 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 49 pour | advmod |
| 49 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 Take | conj |
| 50 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 pour | obj |
| 51 | into | into | ADP | _ | 52 it | case |
| 52 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 pour | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | could | widow | last | to no conclusion | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to conclusion=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | draw off | past | widow | widow's boot | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | widow not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | this boot | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | this boot | a hole | the sole | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | |||
| 6 | go in a quote | infinitive | doors | with sole | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out door=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | hang in a quote | infinitive | hole | the great nail | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on nail=Destination | ||||
| 8 | pour in a quote | infinitive | water | water | then | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme into it=Destination |
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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