Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 46
Here are fifty dollars; go forth with them into the world, and tell no man whence you came, or who your father is, for I am ashamed of you."
Who acts: fifty dollars, you, father, I · What happens: be, go, tell, come · To what, where: world, man · 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 (fifty dollars, you, father, 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 go | advmod |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 dollars | nummod |
| 4 | dollars | dollar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tell | cc |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | conj |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | iobj |
| 18 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 came | advmod |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 who | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 who | cc |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 came | parataxis |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 who | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 who | cop |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 ashamed | punct |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 ashamed | case |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 ashamed | nsubj |
| 30 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 ashamed | cop |
| 31 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tell | advcl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 you | case |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 ashamed | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fifty dollars | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | imperative | you not said here | the world | with dollars = dollar; forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | no man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | come | past | you | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | your father | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is | present | I | of you; ashamed 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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