Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 94
Ah," she replied, "I must spin this straw into gold, and I am sure I do not know how."
Who acts: straw, I · What happens: reply, spin, be, not know · To what, where: straw, gold · 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 (straw, 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 replied | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spin | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 spin | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 spin | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 spin | aux |
| 10 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | ccomp |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 straw | det |
| 12 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spin | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 gold | case |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spin | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sure | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sure | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 sure | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sure | cop |
| 19 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spin | advcl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 know | advmod |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sure | ccomp |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 know | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 spin | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 spin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | straw | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | spin | must | I | this straw | gold | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent straw=Theme into gold=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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