Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 29
At length he said to the maiden: ‘I will go home to my own country; if you will go with me, I will provide for you.’
Who acts: cook, I, you · What happens: say, go, provide · To what, where: length, own country · 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, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 maiden | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maiden | det |
| 7 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 country | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 country | amod |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 go | punct |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 go | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 go | aux |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 go | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 provide | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 provide | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 provide | aux |
| 28 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 you | case |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 provide | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | cook | length | to the maiden | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to maiden=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go | future | I | my own country | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | go a condition, not said to happen | future | you | with me | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | provide | future | I | for you | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for you=Recipient |
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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