Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 53
At last she overtook Frederick, who desired her to give him something to eat.
Who acts: other, Frederick · What happens: overtake, desire, give, eat · To what, where: last, other, something, road
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 (other, Frederick), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 overtook | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 overtook | nsubj |
| 4 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Frederick | Frederick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 desired | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 desired | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 desired | nsubj |
| 8 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overtook | ccomp |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 desired | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 give | mark |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 desired | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 give | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 eat | mark |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 something | acl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overtook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overtake | past | other | last | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | desire | past | Frederick | other | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | Frederick not said here | something | road | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient something=Theme | |||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | Frederick not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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