Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 15
Just as they reached the third brook, the Sister heard the voice saying, "Who drinks of me will become a fawn--who drinks of me will become a fawn!"
Who acts: pieces, Sister, saying, fawn · What happens: reach, hear, say, drink, become · To what, where: third brook, voice, fawn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pieces, Sister, saying, fawn), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 reached | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brook | det |
| 6 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 brook | amod |
| 7 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sister | det |
| 10 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obj |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 become | csubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drinks | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 drinks | punct |
| 17 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 drinks | nsubj |
| 18 | drinks | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 saying | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 drinks | obl |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 become | aux |
| 22 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 heard | ccomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 fawn | det |
| 24 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 become | nsubj |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 drinks | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 drinks | nsubj |
| 27 | drinks | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 fawn | acl:relcl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 drinks | obl |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 become | aux |
| 31 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 become | ccomp |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 fawn | det |
| 33 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 become | xcomp |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | pieces = piece | the third brook | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent brook=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | the Sister | the voice | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | drink in a quote | present | of me | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of i=Source | |||||
| 5 | become in a quote | future | saying | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | drink in a quote | present | a fawn | of me | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of i=Source | ||||
| 7 | become in a quote | future | a fawn | a fawn | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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