Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 39
When she came to the field she said to herself: ‘What shall I do; shall I cut first, or shall I eat first?
Who acts: Hans, I · What happens: come, say, do, cut, eat · To what, where: field, Hans · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, I), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 field | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 field | det |
| 6 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 herself | case |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 13 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 do | obj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 cut | punct |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 cut | aux |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 cut | nsubj |
| 20 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | conj |
| 21 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 cut | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 eat | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 eat | cc |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 eat | aux |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 eat | nsubj |
| 26 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 do | parataxis |
| 27 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 eat | advmod |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Hans | the field | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hans | Hans | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do | shall | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | cut | shall | I | first property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | eat | shall | I | first property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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