Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 85
Then the King said, "You have spoken your own sentence"; and ordering a cask to be fetched, he caused the old woman and her daughter to be put into it, and the bottom nailed up.
Who acts: King, You, bottom, your · What happens: say, speak, order, fetch, cause, put · To what, where: own sentence, cask, old woman · 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 (King, You, bottom, your), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 spoken | punct |
| 7 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 spoken | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 spoken | aux |
| 9 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sentence | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sentence | amod |
| 12 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spoken | obj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 spoken | punct |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 caused | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 caused | cc |
| 16 | ordering | order | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 caused | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cask | det |
| 18 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ordering | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 fetched | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 fetched | aux:pass |
| 21 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 cask | acl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ordering | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 caused | nsubj |
| 24 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 woman | det |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 woman | amod |
| 27 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 caused | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 daughter | cc |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 30 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 woman | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 put | mark |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 put | aux:pass |
| 33 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 caused | advcl |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 put | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 nailed | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 nailed | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 bottom | det |
| 39 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 nailed | nsubj |
| 40 | nailed | nail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | conj |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 nailed | compound:prt |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other in a quote | present · perfect | You | your own sentence | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | order | gerund | King not said here | a cask | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cask=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fetch | to-infinitive · passive | King not said here | a cask not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 5 | cause | past | King | the old woman and woman's daughter | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition woman=Patient | ||||
| 6 | put | to-infinitive · passive | King not said here | cask | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» | ||||
| 7 | nail up | participle | the bottom | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 8 | sentence in a quote | your | nom sentence «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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