Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 56
Then lift her quickly on to the horse behind you; clap your spurs to his side, and gallop away as fast as you can.’
Who acts: you, your · What happens: lift, clap, gallop away, spur · To what, where: princess, horse, spurs, side
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, your), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 lift | advmod |
| 2 | lift | lift | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lift | obj |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 on | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 lift | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 horse | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lift | obl |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 horse | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 clap | punct |
| 12 | clap | clap | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 lift | conj |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 spurs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 clap | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 side | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 side | nmod:poss |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clap | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gallop | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gallop | cc |
| 20 | gallop | gallop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 clap | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 gallop | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 fast | advmod |
| 23 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 gallop | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 can | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 can | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 fast | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 clap | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 clap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | imperative | you not said here | princess | the horse behind you | then | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to horse=Destination | ||
| 2 | clap | infinitive | you not said here | your spurs | horse's side | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent spur=Theme to side=Recipient | |||
| 3 | gallop away | infinitive | you not said here | away, fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | spur | your | nom spur «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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