Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 17
‘I should be very silly,’ said he, ‘if I went to that shabby house, and left this charming place’; so he went into the smart house, and ate and drank at his ease, and forgot the bird, and his country too.
Who acts: I, silly, son · What happens: be, say, go, leave, eat, drink · To what, where: shabby house, charming place, smart house, ease, bird · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, silly, son), 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 silly | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 silly | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 silly | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 silly | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 silly | advmod |
| 6 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 silly | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 silly | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 he | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 went | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 house | det |
| 18 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 house | amod |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 left | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 left | cc |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 place | det |
| 24 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 place | compound |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obj |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 place | punct |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 went | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 went | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 went | nsubj |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 house | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 house | det |
| 33 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 house | amod |
| 34 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 went | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 ate | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 ate | cc |
| 37 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 went | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 drank | cc |
| 39 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 ate | conj |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 ease | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 ease | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 drank | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 forgot | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 forgot | cc |
| 45 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 bird | det |
| 47 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 forgot | obj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 country | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 country | cc |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 country | nmod:poss |
| 51 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 forgot | obl |
| 52 | too | too | ADV | _ | 45 forgot | advmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | I | silly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | silly | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go a condition, not said to happen | past | son | that shabby house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | son not said here | this charming place | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past | son | the smart house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | eat | past | son not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | drink | past | son not said here | son's ease | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | forget | past | silly not said here | the bird | son's country obl | tree rules |
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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