Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 68

As soon as the mother saw it she told One-Eye to break off some of the fruit.

Who acts: mother · What happens: see, tell, break off · To what, where: tree, One Eye, some · 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), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 told	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 saw	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mother	det
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	obj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 Eye	nummod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 One	punct
12	Eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 break	mark
14	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	ccomp
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 break	compound:prt
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 break	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 fruit	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fruit	det
19	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 some	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the mother	tree		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	mother	One Eye	soon property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent eye=Recipient clause=Topic
3	break off not said to happen	to-infinitive		some		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=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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