Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 32
Go now and see where he is; perhaps it may be he, but I should be sorry for it."
Who acts: you, boy, thief, I · What happens: go, see, be · To what, where: boy · 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, boy, thief, 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 see | cc |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 is | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 is | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | ccomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 be | punct |
| 9 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 12 be | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 be | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 be | aux |
| 12 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Go | conj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 be | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sorry | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 sorry | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 sorry | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 sorry | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sorry | cop |
| 19 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sorry | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | present | boy | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | may | thief | boy | perhaps property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | should | I | for thief; sorry 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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