Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 49
I will also give thee this nut,’ continued the night-wind.
Who acts: I · What happens: give, continue · To what, where: nut, thee, night wind
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 give | advmod |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 nut | det |
| 7 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 continued | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 continued | punct |
| 10 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wind | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wind | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 night | punct |
| 14 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 continued | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | this nut | thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient nut=Theme | |||
| 2 | continue | past | the night wind | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wind=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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