Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 4
I am going to work in the fields; when I come back I shall be hungry so let me have something nice cooked, and a good draught of ale.’
Who acts: I, me, something · What happens: go, work, come back, be, let, have · To what, where: good draught, me, something
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 (I, me, something), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 work | mark |
| 5 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 fields | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fields | det |
| 8 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 work | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 hungry | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 come | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hungry | advcl |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 hungry | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 hungry | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hungry | cop |
| 17 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 going | parataxis |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 let | advmod |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 hungry | parataxis |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 22 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 have | obj |
| 23 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 something | amod |
| 24 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 have | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 draught | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 draught | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 draught | det |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 draught | amod |
| 29 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 going | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 ale | case |
| 31 | ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 draught | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | I | a good draught of ale | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | I not said here | in the fields | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in field=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come back | present | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | shall | I | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | have | infinitive | me not said here | something | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | cook | participle | something not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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