Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 80
One-Eye and Three-Eyes replied that the tree belonged to them; and they tried to pluck a branch off for the Knight.
Who acts: Eye, tree, fruits · What happens: reply, belong, try, pluck off · To what, where: One, fruits, branch · 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 (Eye, tree, fruits), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 replied | obl |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Eye | punct |
| 3 | Eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Eyes | cc |
| 5 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Eyes | nummod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Three | punct |
| 7 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Eye | conj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 belonged | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 belonged | nsubj |
| 12 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 belonged | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 tried | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tried | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 tried | nsubj |
| 18 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 pluck | mark |
| 20 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 tried | xcomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 branch | det |
| 22 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pluck | obj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 pluck | compound:prt |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 Knight | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Knight | det |
| 26 | Knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pluck | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Eye and Three Eyes | One | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | belong | past | the tree | fruits = fruit | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | try | past | fruits = fruit | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | pluck off not said to happen | to-infinitive | fruits = fruit not said here | a branch | for the Knight | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent branch=Theme for knight=Beneficiary |
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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