Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 90
But her mother said, ‘It is all of no use, you cannot go; you have no clothes, and cannot dance, and you would only put us to shame’: and off she went with her two daughters to the ball.
Who acts: mother, you · What happens: say, not go, have, not dance, put, shame · To what, where: clothes, us, two daughters, ball · 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 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 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 | _ | 9 all | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 all | punct |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 all | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 all | cop |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 use | case |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 use | det |
| 12 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 all | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 all | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 go | advmod |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 all | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 clothes | det |
| 22 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 have | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dance | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 dance | cc |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 dance | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 dance | advmod |
| 27 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 have | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 put | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 put | cc |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 put | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 put | aux |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 put | advmod |
| 33 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 dance | conj |
| 34 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 put | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 shame | mark |
| 36 | shame | shame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 put | advcl |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 shame | punct |
| 38 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 42 went | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 off | cc |
| 40 | off | off | ADV | _ | 42 went | advmod |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 went | nsubj |
| 42 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 her | case |
| 44 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 went | obl |
| 45 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 daughters | nummod |
| 46 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 went | obl:unmarked |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 ball | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 ball | det |
| 49 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 went | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | ASHPUTTEL's mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not go | can | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 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 | put | would | you | us | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent we=Goal | ||||
| 6 | shame | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | go | past | mother | two daughters | the ball | with ASHPUTTEL; off property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ball=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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