Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 77
‘Bird,’ said the shoemaker, ‘sing me that song again.’
Who acts: Bird · What happens: say, sing · To what, where: shoemaker, song, 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 (Bird), 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 Bird | punct |
| 2 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bird | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bird | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shoemaker | det |
| 7 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sing | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 sing | punct |
| 10 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 sing | obj |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 song | det |
| 13 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sing | obj |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 sing | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sing | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Bird | the shoemaker | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | infinitive | that song | me | again | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary song=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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