Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 130
He went inside, and said, ‘See, what a splendid bird that is; he has given me this beautiful gold chain, and looks so beautiful himself.’
Who acts: man, splendid bird, this · What happens: go, say, see, bird, be, give · To what, where: man, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, splendid bird, this), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 See | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 See | punct |
| 9 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bird | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 bird | nsubj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 13 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bird | amod |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 See | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 is | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bird | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 given | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 given | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 given | aux |
| 20 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 given | iobj |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 chain | nsubj |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 chain | amod |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 chain | compound |
| 25 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 given | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 looks | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 looks | cc |
| 28 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 beautiful | advmod |
| 30 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 looks | xcomp |
| 31 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 beautiful | nsubj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 looks | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | man | inside property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | bird | tree rules | |||||||
| 5 | be | present | a splendid bird | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | give | present · perfect · passive | man | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Theme | ||||
| 7 | chain | this | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | look | present | beautiful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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