Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 121
At this the youth wished also to play, so he asked whether he might join them. "
Who acts: man · What happens: wish, play, ask, join · To what, where: youth, bones
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 (man), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 youth | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 youth | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 youth | det |
| 4 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wished | obl |
| 5 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 play | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 play | mark |
| 8 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wished | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 asked | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wished | advcl |
| 13 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 16 join | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 join | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 join | aux |
| 16 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | xcomp |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 join | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wished | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | this youth | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | join not said to happen | might | man | bones = bone | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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