Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 24
Then Mother Holle said, ‘I am pleased that you should want to go back to your own people, and as you have served me so well and faithfully, I will take you home myself.’
Who acts: Mother, I, you · What happens: say, be, want, go back, serve, take · To what, where: me, you · 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 (Mother, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | Holle | Holle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mother | flat |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pleased | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 pleased | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 pleased | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pleased | cop |
| 9 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 want | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 want | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 want | aux |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pleased | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 want | xcomp |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 people | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 people | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 people | amod |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 go | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 served | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 served | cc |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 served | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 served | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 served | aux |
| 26 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 served | obj |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 well | advmod |
| 29 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 served | advmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 faithfully | cc |
| 31 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 29 well | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 take | punct |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 take | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 take | aux |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 take | obj |
| 37 | home | home | ADV | _ | 35 take | advmod |
| 38 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 35 take | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 take | punct |
| 40 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Mother | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | want | should | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go back not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | to your own people result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to people=Result | ||||
| 5 | serve | present · perfect | you | me | well property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute | |||
| 6 | take | future | I | you | myself obl:unmarked; home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination |
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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