Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 63
Beg your sisters to give you the entrails of the goat, and bury them in the earth before the house door, and your fortune will be made."
Who acts: you · What happens: beg, give, bury, make · To what, where: sisters, entrails, you, earth, fortune
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), 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 | Beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Beg | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 give | mark |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Beg | xcomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 entrails | det |
| 8 | entrails | entrail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 goat | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 goat | det |
| 11 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entrails | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bury | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bury | cc |
| 14 | bury | bury | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Beg | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bury | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 earth | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 earth | det |
| 18 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bury | obl |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 door | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 door | compound |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bury | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 made | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 made | cc |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 26 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 made | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 made | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 made | aux:pass |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Beg | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Beg | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | imperative | you not said here | your sisters | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the entrails of the goat | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient entrail=Theme | |||
| 3 | bury | infinitive | you not said here | entrails = entrail | the earth | before the house door | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in earth=Destination | ||
| 4 | make | future · passive | your fortune | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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