Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 94
‘Do you stay behind,’ said the woodman, ‘and when I have knocked him on the head you must rip him up with the scythe.’
Who acts: you · What happens: stay, say, knock, rip up · To what, where: woodman, I, head · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you), 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 stay | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stay | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 stay | nsubj |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 4 stay | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woodman | det |
| 10 | woodman | woodman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ‘ | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 woodman | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 knocked | cc |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 knocked | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 knocked | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 knocked | aux |
| 17 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 knocked | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 head | det |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knocked | obl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 rip | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 rip | aux |
| 24 | rip | rip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 knocked | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 rip | obj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 rip | compound:prt |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 scythe | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 scythe | det |
| 29 | scythe | scythe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rip | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present · do-support | you | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the woodman and ‘ | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | knock | present · perfect · passive | I | the head | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rip up | must | you | woodman | with the scythe | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with scythe=Instrument |
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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