Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 5
The river said, ‘Run first to the bride, and ask her for a silken cord to draw up the water.’
Who acts: river · What happens: say, ask, draw up · To what, where: Run, river, water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 river | det |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Run | punct |
| 6 | Run | Run | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 bride | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 bride | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bride | det |
| 10 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Run | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ask | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ask | cc |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ask | iobj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 cord | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cord | det |
| 17 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cord | amod |
| 18 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ask | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 draw | mark |
| 20 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 ask | advcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 draw | compound:prt |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 draw | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 ask | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the river | Run | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | river | for a silken cord | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | draw up | to-infinitive | the water | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
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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