Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 67
‘Here is the chain, take it,’ said the goldsmith.
Who acts: chain · What happens: be, take, say · To what, where: chain, goldsmith · 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 (chain), 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 said | parataxis |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chain | det |
| 5 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Here | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 goldsmith | det |
| 13 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the chain | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | the chain not said here | chain | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the goldsmith | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goldsmith=Topic |
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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