Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 48
‘Well, he likes being there, and he told me he should be away quite six weeks; he is well looked after there.’
Who acts: father · What happens: like, be, tell, look · To what, where: me, father · 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 (father), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 likes | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 likes | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 likes | nsubj |
| 5 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 there | cop |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 likes | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | nsubj |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 likes | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 away | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 away | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 away | cop |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 told | ccomp |
| 17 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 six | advmod |
| 18 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 weeks | nummod |
| 19 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 away | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 looked | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 looked | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 looked | aux:pass |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 looked | advmod |
| 24 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 likes | conj |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 there | case |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 looked | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 likes | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 likes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | father | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | father | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | should | father | week | away property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | look | present · passive | father | well property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
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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