Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 142
“Merrily the feast I’ll make.
Who acts: funny little dwarf · What happens: make · To what, where: feast
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (funny little dwarf), 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 | _ | 4 feast | punct |
| 2 | Merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 4 feast | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 feast | det |
| 4 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 make | nsubj |
| 6 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 feast | acl:relcl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | future | a funny little dwarf = dwarf | the feast not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Product |
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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