Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 36
‘Now then,’ cried he, ‘let me ascend quickly.’
Who acts: me · What happens: cry, let, ascend · To what, where: sack, me
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me), 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 | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 then | advmod |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 cried | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cried | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | ascend | ascend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 12 ascend | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | sack | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ascend | infinitive | me not said here | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=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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