Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 82
This is very wonderful." cried the Knight, "that this tree should belong to you, and yet you cannot pluck the fruit!"
Who acts: This, tree, you · What happens: be, cry, belong, not pluck · To what, where: Knight, you, fruit · 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 (This, tree, you), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 wonderful | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wonderful | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 wonderful | advmod |
| 4 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonderful | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonderful | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wonderful | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Knight | det |
| 9 | Knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 belong | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 belong | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 belong | mark |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 belong | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 belong | aux |
| 16 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 belong | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pluck | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pluck | cc |
| 21 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 25 pluck | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 pluck | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 pluck | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 pluck | advmod |
| 25 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wonderful | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fruit | det |
| 27 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pluck | obj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonderful | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | This | wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the Knight | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Topic | |||||
| 3 | belong | should | this tree | you | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not pluck | can | you | the fruit | yet | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=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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