Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 13
So he left the palace and went to the boy, who was already big enough to speak, and said to him: ‘Wish for a beautiful palace for yourself with a garden, and all else that pertains to it.’
Who acts: cook, boy, that · What happens: leave, go, be, speak, say, pertain · To what, where: palace, cook, all · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, boy, that), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 left | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 boy | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 big | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 big | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 big | cop |
| 14 | already | already | ADV | _ | 15 big | advmod |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 boy | amod |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 15 big | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 speak | mark |
| 18 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 big | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 Wish | punct |
| 25 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 Wish | punct |
| 26 | Wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | ccomp |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 palace | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 palace | det |
| 29 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 palace | amod |
| 30 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Wish | nmod |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 yourself | case |
| 32 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 palace | nmod |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 garden | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 garden | det |
| 35 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 palace | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 pertains | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 pertains | cc |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 pertains | obj |
| 39 | else | else | ADV | _ | 38 all | advmod |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 pertains | nsubj |
| 41 | pertains | pertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | parataxis |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 it | case |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 pertains | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 pertains | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 pertains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | cook | the palace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | cook not said here | to the boy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to boy=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the boy | big, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | the boy not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | cook not said here | cook | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | pertain | present | that | all | palace | 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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