Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 27
Two-Eyes, however, divined her sister's object, and drove the goat where the grass was finest, and then said, "Come, One-Eye, let us sit down, and I will sing to you."
Who acts: Two Eyes, goat, us · What happens: divine, drive, be, say, come, let · To what, where: object, One Eye, us, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two Eyes, goat, us), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Eyes | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Two | punct |
| 3 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 divined | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Eyes | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 divined | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | divined | divine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sister | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 object | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 sister | case |
| 11 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 divined | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drove | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drove | cc |
| 14 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 divined | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 goat | det |
| 16 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 finest | nsubj |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 finest | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 grass | det |
| 19 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 finest | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 finest | cop |
| 21 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 drove | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 said | advmod |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 divined | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Come | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Come | punct |
| 28 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 said | ccomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Eye | punct |
| 30 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 Eye | nummod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 One | punct |
| 32 | Eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Come | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 let | punct |
| 34 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 Come | parataxis |
| 35 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 let | obj |
| 36 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 let | xcomp |
| 37 | down | down | ADP | _ | 36 sit | compound:prt |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 sing | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 sing | cc |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 sing | nsubj |
| 41 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 sing | aux |
| 42 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 divined | parataxis |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 you | case |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 sing | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 sing | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divine | past | Two Eyes | Eye's sister's object | however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | drive | past | Two Eyes not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the goat | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Two Eyes not said here | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | come in a quote | infinitive | One Eye | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | sit down in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | sing speech: express in a quote | future | Two Eyes = eye | you | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient |
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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