Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 34
‘Oh, yes,’ he replied, ‘I will play to you while you do it.’
Who acts: sweetheart, I, you · What happens: reply, play, do · To what, where: you, flower · 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 (sweetheart, I, you), 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 play | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 play | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 play | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 play | aux |
| 13 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 play | obl |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 do | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 play | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 do | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | sweetheart | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | play | future | I | you | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do | present | you | flower | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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