Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 42
Shall I cut first, or shall I sleep first?
Who acts: I · What happens: cut, sleep
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 (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 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 cut | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sleep | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 sleep | cc |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 sleep | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 sleep | nsubj |
| 9 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cut | conj |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 sleep | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | shall | I | first property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | sleep | shall | I | first property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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