Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 32
I will still, however, tell you how to find the golden horse, if you will do as I bid you.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: tell, find, do, bid · To what, where: you, golden horse · 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, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | aux |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 tell | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 still | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 tell | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 find | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 find | mark |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tell | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 horse | amod |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tell | conj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 bid | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 bid | nsubj |
| 22 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | advcl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 bid | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | future | I | you | still | however property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | I not said here | the golden horse | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do a condition, not said to happen | future | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bid | past | I | you | 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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