Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 11
She ran down, set a jug, said: ‘God bless it for you, Gretel,’ and took a good drink, and thought that wine should flow on, and should not be interrupted, and took yet another hearty draught.
Who acts: Gretel, God, wine · What happens: run down, set, say, bless, take, think · To what, where: jug, good drink, hearty draught · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Gretel, God, wine), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 ran | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ran | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 jug | det |
| 7 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | parataxis |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 bless | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 bless | punct |
| 12 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 bless | nsubj |
| 13 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bless | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 bless | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Gretel | punct |
| 18 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 bless | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bless | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 bless | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 took | cc |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 drink | det |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 drink | amod |
| 25 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 thought | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 thought | cc |
| 28 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 29 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 wine | det |
| 30 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 flow | nsubj |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 flow | aux |
| 32 | flow | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 thought | ccomp |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 flow | compound:prt |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 interrupted | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 interrupted | cc |
| 36 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 interrupted | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 interrupted | advmod |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 interrupted | aux:pass |
| 39 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ran | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 took | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 took | cc |
| 42 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 43 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 42 took | advmod |
| 44 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 46 draught | det |
| 45 | hearty | hearty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 draught | amod |
| 46 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 took | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run down | past | Gretel | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | Gretel not said here | a jug | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient jug=Result | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | bless | infinitive | God | jug | for you; Gretel obl | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme for you=Attribute | |||
| 5 | take | past | a good drink | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme | |||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | Gretel not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | flow on | should | that wine | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | not interrupt | should · passive | Gretel not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | take | past | Gretel not said here | another hearty draught | yet | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=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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