Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 77
‘Aha!’ she cried mockingly, ‘you would fetch your dearest, but the beautiful bird sits no longer singing in the nest; the cat has got it, and will scratch out your eyes as well.
Who acts: RAPUNZEL, you, beautiful bird, cat · What happens: cry, fetch, sit, sing, get, scratch out · To what, where: dearest, nest, bird, eyes
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 (RAPUNZEL, you, beautiful bird, cat), 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 | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 2 | Aha | aha | INTJ | _ | 6 cried | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Aha | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Aha | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | mockingly | mockingly | ADV | _ | 6 cried | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fetch | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 fetch | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 fetch | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 fetch | aux |
| 12 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cried | conj |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dearest | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dearest | dearest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fetch | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sits | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 sits | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bird | det |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bird | amod |
| 19 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sits | nsubj |
| 20 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | conj |
| 21 | no | no | ADV | _ | 22 longer | advmod |
| 22 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 singing | advmod |
| 23 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 sits | advcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 nest | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 nest | det |
| 26 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 singing | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 got | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cat | det |
| 29 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 got | nsubj |
| 30 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 got | aux |
| 31 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 sits | advcl |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 got | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 scratch | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 scratch | cc |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 scratch | aux |
| 36 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sits | conj |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 scratch | compound:prt |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 39 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 scratch | obj |
| 40 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 36 scratch | advmod |
| 41 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 as | fixed |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | RAPUNZEL | mockingly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fetch | would | you | your dearest | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dearest=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | present | the beautiful bird | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | gerund | the beautiful bird not said here | the nest | long property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location | |||
| 5 | get | present · perfect | the cat | bird | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | scratch out | future | the beautiful bird not said here | your eyes | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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