Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 67
And when she kept on begging, she said at last, to get rid of her, ‘I will throw this dishful of peas into the ash-heap, and if in two hours’ time you have picked them all out, you shall go to the feast too.’
Who acts: ASHPUTTEL, I, you · What happens: keep, beg, say, get, throw, pick out · To what, where: last, dishful, ash heap, time, feast · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ASHPUTTEL, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 kept | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 begging | mark |
| 6 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 kept | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 get | xcomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rid | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 throw | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 throw | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 throw | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 throw | aux |
| 22 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 get | conj |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 dishful | det |
| 24 | dishful | dishful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 throw | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 peas | case |
| 26 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 dishful | nmod |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 heap | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 heap | det |
| 29 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 heap | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 ash | punct |
| 31 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 throw | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 go | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 go | cc |
| 34 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 42 picked | mark |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 two | case |
| 36 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 hours | nummod |
| 37 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 time | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 37 hours | case |
| 39 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 picked | aux |
| 42 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 go | advcl |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 picked | obj |
| 44 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 45 | out | out | ADV | _ | 42 picked | advmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 picked | punct |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 49 go | nsubj |
| 48 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 go | aux |
| 49 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 feast | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 feast | det |
| 52 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 go | obl |
| 53 | too | too | ADV | _ | 49 go | advmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 49 go | punct |
| 55 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 49 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | ASHPUTTEL | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | gerund | ASHPUTTEL not said here | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | ASHPUTTEL | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | throw | future | I | this dishful of peas | into the ash heap result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer dishful=Theme into heap=Result | |||
| 6 | pick out a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect · passive | two hours's time | out property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go | shall | you | the feast | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to feast=Initial_Location |
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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