Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 61
Must I not cry," replied she, "when the goat which used to furnish me every day with a dinner, according to your promise, has been killed by my mother, and I am again suffering hunger and thirst?" "
Who acts: I, goat, mother, your · What happens: not cry, reply, use, furnish, accord, kill · To what, where: Woman, me, promise, goat, hunger · 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 (I, goat, mother, 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 | Must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 cry | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 cry | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 cry | advmod |
| 4 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cry | conj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 32 killed | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 goat | det |
| 13 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 used | nsubj |
| 15 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 goat | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 furnish | mark |
| 17 | furnish | furnish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 used | xcomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 furnish | obj |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 furnish | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 dinner | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dinner | det |
| 23 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 furnish | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 according | punct |
| 25 | according | accord | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 furnish | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 promise | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 promise | nmod:poss |
| 28 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 according | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 goat | punct |
| 30 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 killed | aux |
| 31 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 killed | aux:pass |
| 32 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cry | advcl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 mother | case |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 mother | nmod:poss |
| 35 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 killed | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 suffering | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 suffering | cc |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 suffering | nsubj |
| 39 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 suffering | aux |
| 40 | again | again | ADV | _ | 41 suffering | advmod |
| 41 | suffering | suffer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 cry | advcl |
| 42 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 suffering | obj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 thirst | cc |
| 44 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 hunger | conj |
| 45 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cry speech: express | must | I | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | I not said here | Woman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 3 | use | past | the goat | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | furnish | to-infinitive | the goat not said here | me | day | with a dinner | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with dinner=Theme | ||
| 5 | accord | gerund | the goat not said here | to your promise goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to promise=Goal | ||||
| 6 | kill | present · perfect · passive | my mother | the goat | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 7 | suffer | present · progressive | I | hunger and thirst | again | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hunger=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | promise | your | nom promise «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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