Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 9
Dry your eyes, then, now," said the wise Woman; "I will tell you something which shall prevent you from being hungry again.
Who acts: wise Woman, I · What happens: dry, say, tell, prevent, be · To what, where: eyes, something, you · 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 (wise Woman, I), 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 | Dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dry | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 then | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Dry | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 now | punct |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Dry | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dry | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dry | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Woman | det |
| 12 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Woman | amod |
| 13 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 tell | aux |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | iobj |
| 20 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 tell | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 prevent | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 prevent | aux |
| 23 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 something | acl:relcl |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 prevent | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 hungry | case |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 hungry | cop |
| 27 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 prevent | xcomp |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 27 hungry | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | infinitive | your eyes | then; now | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the wise Woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | future | I | something | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic | |||
| 4 | prevent | shall | you | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer you=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | gerund | again | hungry property | tree rules |
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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