Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 35

‘Yellow buttons!’ said they: ‘let us have a look at them.’

Who acts: Yellow buttons, us · What happens: say, let, have · To what, where: us, look · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yellow buttons, us), 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	_	3 buttons	punct
2	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 buttons	amod
3	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 buttons	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 buttons	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
10	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 look	det
14	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 look	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Yellow buttons			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	infinitive		us		tree rules
3	have	infinitive	us not said here	a look	at buttons = button	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient

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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