Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 11

‘Shake me, shake me, I pray,’ cried the tree; ‘my apples, one and all, are ripe.’

Who acts: I, apples · What happens: shake, pray, cry, be · To what, where: me, tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, apples), 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	_	2 Shake	punct
2	Shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cried	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Shake	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shake	punct
5	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Shake	conj
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 shake	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pray	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 pray	nsubj
9	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Shake	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Shake	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Shake	punct
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cried	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 apples	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 apples	punct
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 apples	nmod:poss
18	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 ripe	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 one	punct
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 apples	appos
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 all	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 one	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 one	punct
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 ripe	cop
25	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cried	parataxis
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shake	infinitive		me		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	shake	infinitive		me		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	pray	present	I			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	cry speech: express	past		the tree		tree rules
5	is	present	my apples		ripe property	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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