Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 10
Her betrothed only replied, ‘You must come and see me next Sunday; I have already invited guests for that day, and that you may not mistake the way, I will strew ashes along the path.’
Who acts: You, I · What happens: betroth, reply, come, see, invite, not mistake · To what, where: me, I, way, ashes, path
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 betrothed | nmod:poss |
| 2 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 replied | advmod |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 betrothed | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 7 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 betrothed | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 see | cc |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Sunday | amod |
| 14 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 invited | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 invited | aux |
| 18 | already | already | ADV | _ | 19 invited | advmod |
| 19 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 betrothed | parataxis |
| 20 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 invited | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 invited | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 strew | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 strew | cc |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 mistake | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 mistake | nsubj |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 mistake | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 mistake | advmod |
| 30 | mistake | mistake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 strew | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 way | det |
| 32 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 mistake | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 mistake | punct |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 strew | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 strew | aux |
| 36 | strew | strew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 betrothed | parataxis |
| 37 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 strew | obj |
| 38 | along | along | ADP | _ | 40 path | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 path | det |
| 40 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 strew | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 strew | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 strew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | betroth | past | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | come | must | You | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | You not said here | me | sunday | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | invite | present · perfect · passive | I | day | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not mistake | may | you | the way | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | strew | future | I | ashes | the path | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ash=Theme along path=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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