Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 116
Wait a bit," said he; "I will poke up the fire first."
Who acts: you, half, I · What happens: wait, say, poke up · To what, where: bit, fire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, half, 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bit | det |
| 3 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 poke | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 poke | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 poke | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 poke | aux |
| 12 | poke | poke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 poke | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fire | det |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 poke | obj |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 poke | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | a bit | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | half | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | poke up | future | I | the fire | first property | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
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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