Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 31
‘Now comes your turn,’ said he to the young tailor; ‘sew the eggs and the young birds in them together again, so neatly that the shot shall have done them no harm.’
Who acts: father · What happens: come, say, sew, do · To what, where: turn, eggs, shot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. 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 | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 comes | advmod |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 turn | nmod:poss |
| 5 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 tailor | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tailor | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tailor | amod |
| 13 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 sew | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 sew | punct |
| 16 | sew | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 eggs | det |
| 18 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sew | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 birds | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 birds | det |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 birds | amod |
| 22 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 eggs | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 birds | nmod |
| 25 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 sew | advmod |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 sew | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 done | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 neatly | advmod |
| 29 | neatly | neatly | ADV | _ | 35 done | advmod |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 done | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 shot | det |
| 32 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 done | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 done | aux |
| 34 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 done | aux |
| 35 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 sew | parataxis |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 done | obj |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 harm | det |
| 38 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 done | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sew | punct |
| 40 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 sew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | your turn | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location turn=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | father | to the young tailor | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to tailor=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sew | infinitive | the eggs and the young birds in pieces | again | together property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Product | |||
| 4 | do | shall · perfect · passive | the shot | neatly property | tree rules |
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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