Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 11
‘Nay,’ said the maid, ‘if you are thirsty, get off yourself, and stoop down by the water and drink; I shall not be your waiting-maid any longer.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: say, be, get off, stoop down, not be · To what, where: maid, yourself, waiting maid · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maid | det |
| 7 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thirsty | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 thirsty | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 thirsty | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 thirsty | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 thirsty | cop |
| 13 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 thirsty | parataxis |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 get | compound:prt |
| 17 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 get | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stoop | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stoop | cc |
| 20 | stoop | stoop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | conj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 stoop | compound:prt |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stoop | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 drink | cc |
| 26 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 water | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 maid | nsubj |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 maid | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 maid | advmod |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 maid | cop |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 maid | nmod:poss |
| 33 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 maid | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 waiting | punct |
| 35 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 36 | any | any | ADV | _ | 37 longer | advmod |
| 37 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 35 maid | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 maid | punct |
| 39 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 maid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the maid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent maid=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | thirsty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get off | infinitive | yourself | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | stoop down | infinitive | by the water and drink | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by water=Location | |||||
| 5 | not is a | shall | I | your waiting maid | long 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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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