Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 48
Then look round and thou wilt see a griffin, winged like bird, sitting by the Red Sea; jump on to his back with thy beloved one as quickly as possible, and he will carry you over the waters to your home.
Who acts: you, thou, griffin · What happens: look round, see, wing, sit, jump on, carry · To what, where: griffin, you, waters
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 (you, thou, griffin), 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 | 2 look | advmod |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 2 look | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 see | cc |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 see | nsubj |
| 6 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 look | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 griffin | det |
| 9 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 winged | punct |
| 11 | winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 griffin | acl |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 bird | case |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 winged | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sitting | punct |
| 15 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 winged | advcl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Sea | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Sea | det |
| 18 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sea | compound |
| 19 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sitting | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 jump | punct |
| 21 | jump | jump | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 look | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADV | _ | 21 jump | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 back | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 back | nmod:poss |
| 25 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 jump | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 one | case |
| 27 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 one | nmod:poss |
| 28 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 one | amod |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 jump | obl |
| 30 | as | as | ADV | _ | 31 quickly | advmod |
| 31 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 21 jump | advmod |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 possible | mark |
| 33 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 quickly | advcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 carry | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 carry | cc |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 carry | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 carry | aux |
| 38 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 look | conj |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 carry | obj |
| 40 | over | over | ADP | _ | 42 waters | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 waters | det |
| 42 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 carry | obl |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 home | case |
| 44 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 home | nmod:poss |
| 45 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 carry | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round | imperative | you not said here | then | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | see | future | thou | a griffin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer griffin=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wing | participle | a griffin not said here | like bird | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sit | gerund | by the Red Sea | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by sea=Location | |||||
| 5 | jump on | infinitive | you not said here | to bird's back result; with thy beloved one; quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to back=Result | ||||
| 6 | carry | future | griffin | you | the waters | to your home | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to home=Destination |
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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