Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 38
‘Then in the meantime I will stay here and wait for you,’ said the girl, ‘and that no one may recognize me, I will change myself into a red stone landmark.’
Who acts: I, girl, one · What happens: stay, wait, say, recognize, change · To what, where: meantime, me, myself, red stone landmark · 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 (I, girl, one), 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 stay | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 stay | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 meantime | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 meantime | det |
| 5 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stay | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 stay | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 stay | aux |
| 8 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 stay | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wait | cc |
| 11 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 stay | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 wait | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stay | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 stay | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girl | det |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 26 recognize | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 recognize | cc |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 recognize | mark |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 recognize | nsubj |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 recognize | aux |
| 26 | recognize | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | parataxis |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 recognize | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 change | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 change | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 change | aux |
| 31 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 recognize | conj |
| 32 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 change | obj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 landmark | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 landmark | det |
| 35 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 landmark | amod |
| 36 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 landmark | compound |
| 37 | landmark | landmark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 change | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 recognize | punct |
| 39 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 recognize | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | future | I | the meantime; here | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meantime=Location | |||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | I not said here | for you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | recognize | may | no one | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | change | future | I | myself | into a red stone landmark result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent myself=Patient into landmark=Result |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/30/38/