Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Goose-girl, sentence 8
Nay," said the maid, "if you are thirsty, get down yourself, and lie down by the water and drink; I shall not be your waiting-maid any longer."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: say, be, get down, lie down, not be · To what, where: maid, yourself, waiting maid · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nay | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nay | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maid | det |
| 6 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thirsty | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 thirsty | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 thirsty | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 thirsty | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 thirsty | cop |
| 12 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 thirsty | parataxis |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 get | advmod |
| 16 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 get | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lie | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lie | cc |
| 19 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 lie | compound:prt |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lie | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 drink | cc |
| 25 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 water | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 maid | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 maid | nsubj |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 maid | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 maid | advmod |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 maid | cop |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 maid | nmod:poss |
| 32 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 maid | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 waiting | punct |
| 34 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 35 | any | any | ADV | _ | 36 longer | advmod |
| 36 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 34 maid | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 maid | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 maid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the maid | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | thirsty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get down | infinitive | yourself | down property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lie down | infinitive | by the water and drink | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by water=Location | |||||
| 5 | not is a | shall | I | your waiting maid | long 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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