Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 13
‘Tomorrow, you shall only do me a very trifling piece of work.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, trifle · To what, where: trifling piece, me
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 2 | Tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tomorrow | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 do | advmod |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 piece | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 trifling | advmod |
| 11 | trifling | trifle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 piece | amod |
| 12 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 work | case |
| 14 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 piece | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | shall | you | a trifling piece of work | me | tomorrow | tree rules | ||
| 2 | trifle | gerund | vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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