Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 86
The Knight was bewildered at her great beauty, and said, "You, Two-Eyes, can surely break off a bough of this tree for me?" "
Who acts: You · What happens: bewilder, say, break off · To what, where: Knight, great beauty, bough · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Knight | det |
| 2 | Knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bewildered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bewildered | aux:pass |
| 4 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 beauty | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beauty | amod |
| 8 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bewildered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bewildered | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 break | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 break | punct |
| 14 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 break | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Eyes | punct |
| 16 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 Eyes | nummod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Two | punct |
| 18 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 You | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 You | punct |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 break | aux |
| 21 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 22 break | advmod |
| 22 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 break | compound:prt |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bough | det |
| 25 | bough | bough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 break | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 tree | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 tree | det |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bough | nmod |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 break | obl |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 break | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 break | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bewildered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bewilder | past · passive | the Knight | Eye's great beauty | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | break off in a quote | can | You | a bough of this tree | for me; surely property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bough=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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