Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 42
‘No,’ said the moon, ‘I cannot help thee but I will give thee an egg--break it when need comes.’
Who acts: I, need · What happens: say, not help, give, break, come · To what, where: moon, thee, egg · 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 (I, need), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moon | det |
| 7 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 help | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 help | advmod |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 give | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 give | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | aux |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 help | conj |
| 19 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 egg | det |
| 21 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 break | punct |
| 23 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 help | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 break | obj |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 comes | advmod |
| 26 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 comes | nsubj |
| 27 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 break | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the moon | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not help | can | I | thee | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | give | future | I | a egg | thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient egg=Theme | |||
| 4 | break | infinitive | I not said here | moon | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | come | present | need | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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