Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 8
But the dwarf said, ‘Let the poor things enjoy themselves, you shall not kill them.’
Who acts: dwarf, poor things, you · What happens: say, let, enjoy, not kill · To what, where: things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Queen Bee. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarf, poor things, 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 dwarf | det |
| 3 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Let | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Let | punct |
| 7 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 things | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 things | amod |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 enjoy | nsubj |
| 11 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Let | ccomp |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 enjoy | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kill | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 kill | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 kill | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 kill | advmod |
| 17 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Let | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 kill | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Let | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the dwarf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | enjoy | present | the poor things | things = thing | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not kill | shall | you | things = thing | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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