Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 34
The following morning the mother told Three-Eyes that she must go out and watch Two-Eyes, and see who brought her food, for it was certain that some one must.
Who acts: mother, Three Eyes, food · What happens: follow, tell, go out, watch, see, bring · To what, where: Three Eyes, Two Eyes, food · 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 (mother, Three Eyes, food), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mother | det |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | nsubj |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 Eyes | nummod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Three | punct |
| 9 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 told | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 go | nsubj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Eyes | acl:relcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 watch | cc |
| 16 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 go | conj |
| 17 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 Eyes | nummod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Two | punct |
| 19 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 watch | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 see | cc |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 told | conj |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 brought | nsubj |
| 24 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | ccomp |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 food | nmod:poss |
| 26 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 brought | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 certain | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 certain | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 certain | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 certain | cop |
| 31 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 see | conj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 must | mark |
| 33 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 one | det |
| 34 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 must | nsubj |
| 35 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 certain | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the mother | Three Eyes | morning | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent eye=Recipient | |||
| 3 | go out | must | Three Eyes | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | watch | infinitive | Three Eyes not said here | Two Eyes | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | infinitive | the mother not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | bring | past | Eye's food | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | past | food | certain property | tree rules |
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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