Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 8
The master said: ‘I will run myself, and fetch the guest.’
Who acts: master, I · What happens: say, run, fetch · To what, where: myself, guest · 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 (master, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 master | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 run | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 run | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 run | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 run | aux |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 run | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fetch | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fetch | cc |
| 12 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 run | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 guest | det |
| 14 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fetch | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 run | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | run | future | I | myself | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme myself=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | fetch | infinitive | I not said here | the guest | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=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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