Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 20
We’ll laugh and be merry, Sing neigh down derry!’
Who acts: We · What happens: laugh, be
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 laugh | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 laugh | aux |
| 3 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 merry | cc |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 merry | cop |
| 6 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 laugh | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 neigh | punct |
| 8 | Sing | sing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 neigh | amod |
| 9 | neigh | neigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 merry | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 derry | case |
| 11 | derry | derry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 neigh | nmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 laugh | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 laugh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | future | We | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | We not said here | merry property | tree rules |
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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