Grimms' Fairy Tales, 2. How Chanticleer and Partlet Went to Visit Mr Korbes, sentence 8
For we are going a visit to pay To Mr Korbes, the fox, today.’
Who acts: we · What happens: go, pay · To what, where: visit, 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: who acts (we), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 going | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 visit | det |
| 6 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 pay | mark |
| 8 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 visit | acl |
| 9 | To | to | ADP | _ | 10 Mr | case |
| 10 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 pay | obl |
| 11 | Korbes | Korbes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Mr | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fox | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fox | det |
| 14 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 visit | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 today | punct |
| 16 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 visit | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | we | a visit and the fox and today | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location visit=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pay | to-infinitive | we not said here | a visit and the fox and today not said here | Mr | 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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