Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 19
I’ll tell you what, I will make each of them a shirt, and a coat and waistcoat, and a pair of pantaloons into the bargain; and do you make each of them a little pair of shoes.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: tell, make · To what, where: you, each · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Elves and the Shoemaker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 tell | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 make | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | aux |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tell | advcl |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 each | nmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 shirt | det |
| 14 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 coat | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 coat | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 coat | det |
| 18 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 waistcoat | cc |
| 20 | waistcoat | waistcoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 coat | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pair | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 pair | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pair | det |
| 24 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 coat | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 pantaloons | case |
| 26 | pantaloons | pantaloon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 pair | nmod |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 bargain | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bargain | det |
| 29 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pantaloons | nmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 make | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 make | cc |
| 32 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 make | aux |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 make | nsubj |
| 34 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tell | parataxis |
| 35 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 make | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 each | nmod |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 pair | det |
| 39 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 pair | amod |
| 40 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 make | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 shoes | case |
| 42 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 pair | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 44 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | future | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | future | I | each | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Product | ||||
| 3 | make | present · do-support | you | each | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset each=Beneficiary pair=Product |
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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