Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 114
Then they said, ‘The old woman was the queen herself; take care another time, and let no one in when we are away.’
Who acts: dwarfs, old woman, we · What happens: say, be, take, let in · To what, where: queen, care, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarfs, old woman, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 queen | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 queen | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 queen | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 queen | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 queen | det |
| 11 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 queen | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 15 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 let | cc |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 take | conj |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 let | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 let | compound:prt |
| 24 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 27 away | mark |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 away | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 away | cop |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 let | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | dwarfs = dwarf | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the old woman | the queen | woman nmod:unmarked | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | infinitive | care | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let in | infinitive | no one | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | present | we | away 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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