Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 101
And there is no boat, either," said Grethel; "but there swims a white duck, and I will ask her to help us over."
Who acts: boat, Grethel, I · What happens: be, say, swim, ask, help over · To what, where: white duck, duck, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boat, Grethel, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 is | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 boat | det |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 either | punct |
| 7 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 is | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 either | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Grethel | Grethel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 swims | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 but | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 swims | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 swims | expl |
| 16 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 duck | det |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 duck | amod |
| 19 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swims | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ask | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ask | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 ask | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 ask | aux |
| 24 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 swims | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ask | iobj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 help | mark |
| 27 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ask | xcomp |
| 28 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 help | obj |
| 29 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 help | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 swims | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 swims | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no boat | there | either property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Grethel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | swim | present | a white duck | there | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location duck=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | future | I | duck | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | help over not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | us | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary |
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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