Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 43
‘Bless me!’ cried the miller, and went there and found the wine.
What happens: bless, cry, go, find · To what, where: me, miller, wine
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bless | punct |
| 2 | Bless | bless | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Bless | obj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bless | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bless | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 miller | det |
| 8 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wine | det |
| 16 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless | infinitive | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the miller | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miller=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | past | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | past | the wine | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Topic |
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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