Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 85
The next morning this youth went to the King, and said, "If you will allow me, I wish to watch three nights in the enchanted castle."
Who acts: youth, you · What happens: go, say, allow, wish, watch, enchant · To what, where: youth, enchanted castle · 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 (youth, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 youth | det |
| 5 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 King | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 allow | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 allow | punct |
| 15 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 allow | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 allow | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 allow | aux |
| 18 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 allow | iobj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wish | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 wish | nsubj |
| 22 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 allow | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 watch | mark |
| 24 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 wish | xcomp |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 nights | nummod |
| 26 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 watch | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 castle | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 castle | det |
| 29 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 castle | amod |
| 30 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 watch | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | this youth | morning | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | this youth not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | allow a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | this youth = youth | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | wish in a quote | present | this youth = youth | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | watch not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | this youth = youth not said here | the enchanted castle | night | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in castle=Location | |||
| 6 | enchant in a quote | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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