Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 27
Pray give the girl some work to do, that she may not be idle."
Who acts: you, some, maid · What happens: pray, give, work, do, not be · To what, where: girl
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, some, maid), 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 | Pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 give | reparandum |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 give | obj |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 work | nsubj |
| 6 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 girl | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 work | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 idle | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 idle | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 idle | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 idle | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 idle | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 idle | cop |
| 15 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 give | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | infinitive | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | give | imperative | you not said here | the girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | ||||
| 3 | work | present | some | the girl not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent girl=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | some not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not is | may | maid | idle 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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