Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Hans, sentence 106
‘I took her nothing, she gave me something.’
Who acts: I, Gretel · What happens: take, give · To what, where: nothing, something, me
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Gretel), 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 | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 nothing | nmod:poss |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 gave | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | I | nothing | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Gretel | something | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=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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