Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 42
Alas! alas! if thy mother knew it, Sadly, sadly, would she rue it.’
Who acts: mother · What happens: know, rue · To what, where: alas, piece · 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 (mother), 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 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 3 alas | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 3 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 knew | obl |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 alas | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 knew | mark |
| 6 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 knew | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sadly | punct |
| 11 | Sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 8 knew | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sadly | punct |
| 13 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 11 Sadly | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rue | punct |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 rue | aux |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rue | nsubj |
| 17 | rue | rue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 knew | ccomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rue | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 rue | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 rue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | thy mother | alas | sadly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rue | would | mother | piece | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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