Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 7

Because I have two eyes like ordinary people," replied the maiden, "and therefore my mother and sisters dislike me, push me into corners, throw me their old clothes, and give me nothing to eat but what they leave.

Who acts: I, mother, clothes · What happens: have, reply, dislike, push, throw, give · To what, where: two eyes, maiden, me, corners, old clothes, nothing

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, mother, clothes), 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	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 have	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 replied	advcl
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 eyes	nummod
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 people	case
7	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eyes	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
11	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 maiden	det
13	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dislike	cc
17	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	22 dislike	advmod
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dislike	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sisters	cc
21	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 mother	conj
22	dislike	dislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 replied	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 dislike	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 push	punct
25	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 dislike	conj
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 push	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	28 corners	case
28	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 push	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 throw	punct
30	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 push	conj
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 throw	obj
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 clothes	nmod:poss
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 clothes	amod
34	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	30 throw	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 give	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 give	cc
37	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 push	conj
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 give	iobj
39	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	37 give	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 eat	mark
41	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 nothing	acl
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 leave	cc
43	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	45 leave	obj
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 leave	nsubj
45	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 give	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	two eyes			like ordinary people	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	reply speech: assert in a quote	past		the maiden				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent maiden=Topic
3	dislike	present	my mother and sisters	me			therefore property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
4	push	infinitive	my mother and sisters not said here	me		corners		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme into corner=Destination
5	throw	infinitive	my mother and sisters not said here	corners's old clothes	me			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination clothes=Theme
6	give	infinitive	my mother and sisters not said here	nothing	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient nothing=Theme
7	eat	to-infinitive	my mother and sisters not said here	nothing not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	leave	present	clothes					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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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