Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 7
But the bride said, ‘Run first, and bring me my garland that is hanging on a willow in the garden.’
Who acts: bride, garland · What happens: say, run, bring, hang · To what, where: garland, me, willow · 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 (bride, garland), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bride | det |
| 3 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Run | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Run | punct |
| 7 | Run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 Run | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bring | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bring | cc |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Run | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 garland | nmod:poss |
| 14 | garland | garland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 hanging | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hanging | aux |
| 17 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 garland | acl:relcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 willow | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 willow | det |
| 20 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hanging | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 garden | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 garden | det |
| 23 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hanging | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Run | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the bride | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | run | infinitive | first property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | my garland | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination garland=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hang | present · progressive | my garland | a willow | in the garden | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on willow=Location |
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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