Grimms' Fairy Tales, 2. How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes, sentence 4
‘All on our way A visit to pay To Mr Korbes, the fox, today.’
What happens: pay · To what, where: Mr
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 2. How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 way | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 way | det |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 way | case |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 way | nmod:poss |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 visit | det |
| 7 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 way | appos |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 pay | mark |
| 9 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 visit | acl |
| 10 | To | to | ADP | _ | 11 Mr | case |
| 11 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 pay | obl |
| 12 | Korbes | Korbes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Mr | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fox | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fox | det |
| 15 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Mr | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fox | punct |
| 17 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pay | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | to-infinitive | Mr | today | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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