Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 10
Then the man said, ‘I knew not that the garden belonged to you; can nothing save my life?’
Who acts: man, I, garden, nothing · What happens: say, not know, belong, save · To what, where: you, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, I, garden, nothing), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 knew | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 knew | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 knew | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 belonged | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 garden | det |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 belonged | nsubj |
| 13 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 knew | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 belonged | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 save | punct |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 save | aux |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 save | nsubj |
| 19 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 life | nmod:poss |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 save | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 save | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the man | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not know | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | belong | past | the garden | you | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | save | can | nothing | my life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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