Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 61
‘Then go home, and do it now before we go any farther,’ said Frederick, ‘and bring with you something to eat.’
Who acts: we, Frederick · What happens: go, do, say, bring, eat · To what, where: door, something · 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 (we, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 go | advmod |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 do | cc |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 do | advmod |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | advcl |
| 13 | any | any | ADV | _ | 14 farther | advmod |
| 14 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 go | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | Frederick | Frederick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Frederick | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 22 bring | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bring | cc |
| 22 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 bring | obl |
| 25 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 bring | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 eat | mark |
| 27 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 something | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 bring | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | door | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | go | present | we | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Frederick | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | bring | infinitive | something | with you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent something=Theme | ||||
| 6 | eat | to-infinitive | 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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