Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 25
So she took another hearty drink, and let the second chicken follow the first.
Who acts: Gretel, second chicken · What happens: take, let, follow · To what, where: hearty drink, second chicken, first
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, second chicken), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 drink | det |
| 5 | hearty | hearty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 drink | amod |
| 6 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 let | cc |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chicken | det |
| 11 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 chicken | amod |
| 12 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 let | obj |
| 13 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 first | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 follow | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Gretel | another hearty drink | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | Gretel not said here | the second chicken | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | infinitive | the second chicken not said here | the first | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent first=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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