Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 53
‘If you will only listen,’ said the fox, ‘it can be done.
Who acts: you · What happens: listen, say, do · To what, where: fox, thing · 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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 listen | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 listen | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 listen | aux |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 listen | advmod |
| 6 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 listen | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 listen | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fox | det |
| 11 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 done | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | SCONJ | _ | 17 done | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 done | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 done | aux:pass |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen a condition, not said to happen | future | you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | can · passive | thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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