Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 22
Then she said: ‘Well, Gretel, enjoy yourself, one fowl has been cut into, take another drink, and eat it up entirely; when it is eaten you will have some peace, why should God’s good gifts be spoilt?’
Who acts: other, Gretel, you, God · What happens: say, enjoy, cut, take, eat up, eat · To what, where: yourself, one fowl, drink, peace, good gifts · 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 (other, Gretel, you, God), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Well | punct |
| 6 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 10 enjoy | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Well | punct |
| 8 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 enjoy | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Gretel | punct |
| 10 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 enjoy | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cut | punct |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 fowl | nummod |
| 14 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 cut | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 cut | aux:pass |
| 17 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 enjoy | advcl |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 cut | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 enjoy | parataxis |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 drink | det |
| 22 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 eat | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 eat | cc |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 eat | obj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 eat | compound:prt |
| 28 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 25 eat | advmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 have | punct |
| 30 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 33 eaten | mark |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 eaten | aux:pass |
| 33 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 have | advcl |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 have | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 have | aux |
| 36 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 enjoy | conj |
| 37 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 peace | det |
| 38 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 have | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 spoilt | punct |
| 40 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 47 spoilt | advmod |
| 41 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 spoilt | aux |
| 42 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 43 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 42 God | case |
| 44 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 gifts | amod |
| 45 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 spoilt | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 spoilt | aux:pass |
| 47 | spoilt | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 peace | acl:relcl |
| 48 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 enjoy | punct |
| 49 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 enjoy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | other | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | enjoy | infinitive | Gretel | yourself | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cut | present · perfect · passive | one fowl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | another drink | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme | |||||
| 5 | eat up | infinitive | drink | entirely property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | eat | present · passive | drink | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 7 | have | future | you | some peace | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient | ||||
| 8 | spoil | should · passive | God's good gifts | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | gift | God | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=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.
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