Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 40
But she only answered, ‘A nice thing to ask me to do, one of the apples might fall on my head,’ and passed on.
Who acts: girl, one · What happens: answer, ask, do, fall, pass on · To what, where: me, head · 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 (girl, one), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 answered | advmod |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thing | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 thing | punct |
| 7 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 8 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 ask | mark |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thing | acl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 ask | iobj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ask | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 fall | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 apples | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 apples | det |
| 19 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 fall | aux |
| 21 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fall | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fall | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 fall | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 passed | cc |
| 28 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 answered | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 passed | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | girl | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | girl not said here | me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fall | might | one of the apples | my head | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location | ||||
| 5 | pass on | participle | girl not said here | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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