Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 10
Meanwhile, I will run into the cellar, and take a drink.’
Who acts: I · What happens: run, take · To what, where: cellar, drink
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 run | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 run | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 run | aux |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 cellar | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cellar | det |
| 8 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 run | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 take | cc |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 run | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 drink | det |
| 13 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 run | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | future | I | into the cellar result; meanwhile property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cellar=Result | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | I not said here | a drink | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme |
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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