Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 73
Two-Eyes now thought she would try, and said to her sisters, "Let me get up, perhaps I may be successful." "
Who acts: Two Eyes, Eye · What happens: think, try, say, let, get up, be · To what, where: sisters, Two Eyes · 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 (Two Eyes, Eye), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Eyes | nummod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Two | punct |
| 3 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 thought | advmod |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 try | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 try | aux |
| 8 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 sisters | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Let | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Let | punct |
| 17 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 Let | obj |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 Let | xcomp |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 get | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 successful | punct |
| 22 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 26 successful | advmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 successful | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 successful | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 successful | cop |
| 26 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 get | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 successful | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 successful | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Two Eyes | now | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | would | Eye | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Two Eyes not said here | Eye's sisters | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | Two Eyes = eye | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | get up in a quote | infinitive | Two Eyes = eye not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | may | Two Eyes = eye | perhaps, successful property | tree rules |
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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