Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 143
Today I’ll brew, tomorrow bake; Merrily I’ll dance and sing, For next day will a stranger bring.
Who acts: I, stranger · What happens: brew, dance, sing, bring · To what, where: tomorrow bake
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 (I, stranger), 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 | Today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brew | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 brew | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 brew | aux |
| 4 | brew | brew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bake | punct |
| 6 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bake | compound |
| 7 | bake | bake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brew | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 dance | punct |
| 9 | Merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 12 dance | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 dance | nsubj |
| 11 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 dance | aux |
| 12 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 brew | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sing | cc |
| 14 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dance | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bring | punct |
| 16 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 bring | mark |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 day | amod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bring | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 bring | aux |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 stranger | det |
| 21 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bring | nsubj |
| 22 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dance | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brew | future | I | tomorrow bake | today | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bake=Product | |||
| 2 | dance | future | I | merrily property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | infinitive | I not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bring | future | a stranger | day | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/25/143/