Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 26
You shall become a black poodle and have a gold collar round your neck, and shall eat burning coals, till the flames burst forth from your throat.’
Who acts: You, flames · What happens: become, have, eat, burn, burst · To what, where: black poodle, gold collar, burning coals, throat
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 (You, flames), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 become | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 become | aux |
| 3 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 poodle | det |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 poodle | amod |
| 6 | poodle | poodle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 become | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 have | cc |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 become | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 collar | det |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 collar | compound |
| 11 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 12 | round | round | ADP | _ | 14 neck | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 neck | nmod:poss |
| 14 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 collar | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eat | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 eat | cc |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 eat | aux |
| 18 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 become | parataxis |
| 19 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 coals | amod |
| 20 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 eat | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 burst | punct |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 burst | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 flames | det |
| 24 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 burst | nsubj |
| 25 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 eat | conj |
| 26 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 25 burst | advmod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 throat | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 throat | nmod:poss |
| 29 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 burst | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 become | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | shall | You | a black poodle | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | You not said here | a gold collar | round your neck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collar=Patient | |||
| 3 | eat | shall | burning coals | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coal=Patient | |||||
| 4 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | burst | present | the flames | your throat | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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