Grimms' Fairy Tales, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts, sentence 10
This she agreed to do; and Chanticleer got upon the box, and drove, crying, ‘Now, duck, get on as fast as you can.’
Who acts: This, Chanticleer · What happens: agree, do, get, drive, cry, get on · To what, where: duck · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Chanticleer), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 agreed | xcomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 got | cc |
| 8 | Chanticleer | chanticleer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | conj |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 box | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 box | det |
| 12 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drove | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drove | cc |
| 15 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 crying | punct |
| 17 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 drove | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 duck | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 duck | punct |
| 20 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 duck | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Now | punct |
| 22 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crying | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 agreed | ccomp |
| 25 | on | on | ADV | _ | 24 get | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 fast | advmod |
| 27 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 get | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 can | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 can | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 fast | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | This | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | This not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | past | Chanticleer | upon the box | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | drive | past | This not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | gerund | This not said here | duck | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | get on | infinitive | fast property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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: «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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