Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 88
What can I give you in return, Two-Eyes?" asked the Knight. "
Who acts: I, One Eye · What happens: give, ask · To what, where: you, return, Knight
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 (I, One 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 give | obj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 return | case |
| 7 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Eyes | punct |
| 9 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 Eyes | nummod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Two | punct |
| 11 | Eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 return | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Knight | det |
| 16 | Knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | can | I | you | return and Two Eyes | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | One Eye and Three Eyes = eye not said here | the Knight | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent knight=Recipient |
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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