Grimms' Fairy Tales, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood], sentence 19
I believe, too, that you do not hear how sweetly the little birds are singing; you walk gravely along as if you were going to school, while everything else out here in the wood is merry.’
Who acts: I, you, little birds · What happens: believe, not hear, sing, walk, go, be · To what, where: school, wood · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red-cap [little Red Riding Hood]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, little birds), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 too | punct |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 believe | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hear | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 hear | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 hear | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hear | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 hear | advmod |
| 10 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 believe | conj |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 sweetly | advmod |
| 12 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 17 singing | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 birds | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 birds | amod |
| 15 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 singing | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 singing | aux |
| 17 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 hear | ccomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 walk | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 walk | nsubj |
| 20 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 believe | parataxis |
| 21 | gravely | gravely | ADV | _ | 20 walk | advmod |
| 22 | along | along | ADV | _ | 20 walk | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 going | mark |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 going | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 going | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 going | aux |
| 27 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 walk | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 school | case |
| 29 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 going | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 here | punct |
| 31 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 35 here | mark |
| 32 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 35 here | nsubj |
| 33 | else | else | ADV | _ | 32 everything | advmod |
| 34 | out | out | ADV | _ | 35 here | advmod |
| 35 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 walk | advmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 wood | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 wood | det |
| 38 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 merry | obl |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 merry | cop |
| 40 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 here | parataxis |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 walk | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not hear | present · do-support | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | present · progressive | the little birds | sweetly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 4 | walk | present | you | here | along, gravely property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | go | past · progressive | you | school | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | is | present | the wood | merry 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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