Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 77
But the mother said, ‘No, no! you slut, you have no clothes, and cannot dance; you shall not go.’
Who acts: mother, you · What happens: say, slut, have, not dance, not go · To what, where: clothes · 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 (mother, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mother | det |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 slut | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 slut | punct |
| 7 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 slut | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 No | punct |
| 9 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 No | discourse |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 No | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 slut | nsubj |
| 12 | slut | slut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 clothes | det |
| 17 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dance | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dance | cc |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 dance | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 dance | advmod |
| 22 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 have | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 go | punct |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 go | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 go | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 go | advmod |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 go | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | slut | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | have | present | you | no clothes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not dance | can | you not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not go | shall | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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