Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 9
I have saved up my three years’ earnings and have it all safe in my pocket.’
Who acts: I · What happens: save up, have · To what, where: earnings, dancing
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 saved | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 saved | aux |
| 3 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 saved | compound:prt |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 years | nmod:poss |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 earnings | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 7 years | case |
| 9 | earnings | earning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saved | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 have | cc |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 saved | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 have | obj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 it | det |
| 14 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 have | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 pocket | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 17 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 safe | obl | ||
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saved | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 saved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save up | present · perfect | I | my three years's earnings | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earning=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I not said here | dancing | safe property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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