Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 3

You are no better than common folk," they would say to her; "you do not belong to us"; and then they would push her about, give her coarse clothing, and nothing to eat but their leavings, besides numerous other insults as occasion offered.

Who acts: You, daughters · What happens: not be, say, not belong, push, give, eat · To what, where: sister, us, coarse clothing, leavings, numerous other insults · 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 (You, daughters), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 better	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 better	cop
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 better	advmod
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 folk	case
6	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 folk	amod
7	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 better	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 better	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 belong	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 belong	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 belong	nsubj
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 belong	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 belong	advmod
20	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 say	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 us	case
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 belong	obl
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 belong	punct
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 push	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 push	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 push	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 push	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 push	aux
29	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 say	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 push	obj
31	about	about	ADV	_	29 push	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 give	punct
33	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 say	conj
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 clothing	nmod:poss
35	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 clothing	amod
36	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 give	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 nothing	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 nothing	cc
39	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 give	obl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 eat	mark
41	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 nothing	acl
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 leavings	cc
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 leavings	nmod:poss
44	leavings	leaving	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 eat	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 insults	punct
46	besides	besides	ADP	_	49 insults	case
47	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 insults	amod
48	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 insults	amod
49	insults	insult	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 eat	obl
50	as	as	ADP	_	51 occasion	case
51	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 insults	nmod
52	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 insults	acl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	You				than common folk; good property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	would	daughters = daughter		sister			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not belong	present · do-support	you		us			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	push in a quote	would	daughters = daughter	sister		then	about property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	give in a quote	infinitive	daughters = daughter not said here	sister's coarse clothing			nothing obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothing=Theme
6	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	daughters = daughter not said here	daughters's leavings			besides numerous other insults as occasion	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaving=Patient
7	offer in a quote	participle		numerous other insults as occasion not said here				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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