Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 64
The mayor, however, said: ‘But my servant must go first.’
Who acts: mayor, servant · What happens: say, go · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (mayor, servant), 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 mayor | det |
| 2 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 mayor | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 9 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 go | cc |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 servant | nmod:poss |
| 11 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the mayor | however property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | must | my servant | first property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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