Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 64
So saying, she disappeared, and Two-Eyes went home, and said to her sisters, "Dear sisters, do give me some part of the slain kid; I desire nothing else--let me have the entrails."
Who acts: fortune, Two Eyes, I, me · What happens: say, disappear, go, give, desire, let · To what, where: sisters, part, me, nothing, entrails · 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 (fortune, Two Eyes, I, me), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 disappeared | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 disappeared | nsubj |
| 5 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 8 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 Eyes | nummod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Two | punct |
| 10 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 disappeared | conj |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 disappeared | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 sisters | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 said | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sisters | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 sisters | punct |
| 21 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sisters | amod |
| 22 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sisters | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 give | punct |
| 24 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 give | aux |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 give | iobj |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 part | det |
| 28 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 give | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 kid | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 kid | det |
| 31 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 kid | amod |
| 32 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 part | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 desire | punct |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 desire | nsubj |
| 35 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 disappeared | parataxis |
| 36 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 35 desire | obj |
| 37 | else | else | ADV | _ | 36 nothing | advmod |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 let | punct |
| 39 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 35 desire | conj |
| 40 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 let | obj |
| 41 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 let | xcomp |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 entrails | det |
| 43 | entrails | entrail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 have | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 disappeared | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | fortune not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | disappear | past | fortune | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Two Eyes | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | fortune's sisters and Dear sisters | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | give in a quote | present · do-support | some part of the slain kid | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient part=Theme | ||||
| 6 | desire in a quote | present | I | nothing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | ||||
| 7 | let in a quote | infinitive | I not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | have in a quote | infinitive | me not said here | the entrails | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entrail=Patient |
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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