Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 87
Yes," she replied, "that I will, for it is my property"; and climbing up, she easily broke off a branch with silver leaves and golden fruit, which she handed to the Knight. "
Who acts: Eye, tree, golden fruit · What happens: reply, be, climb up, break off, hand · To what, where: branch, Knight · 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, golden fruit), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 replied | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 will | nsubj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 will | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 property | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 property | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 property | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 property | cop |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 property | nmod:poss |
| 16 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 property | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 broke | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 broke | cc |
| 20 | climbing | climb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 broke | advcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 climbing | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 climbing | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 broke | nsubj |
| 24 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 25 broke | advmod |
| 25 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | conj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 broke | compound:prt |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 branch | det |
| 28 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 broke | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 leaves | case |
| 30 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leaves | compound |
| 31 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 branch | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 fruit | cc |
| 33 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 fruit | amod |
| 34 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leaves | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 handed | punct |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 handed | nsubj |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 handed | nsubj |
| 38 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 fruit | acl:relcl |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 Knight | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Knight | det |
| 41 | Knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 handed | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | Eye | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | tree | for my property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | climb up in a quote | gerund | Eye not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | break off in a quote | past | Eye | a branch | with silver leaves and golden fruit; easily property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent branch=Patient with leaf=Instrument | |||
| 5 | hand in a quote | past | golden fruit | the Knight | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to knight=Destination |
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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