Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 55
Fill your pocket full of peas, and make a small hole in the pocket, and then if you are carried away again, they will fall out and leave a track in the streets.’
Who acts: you, peas · What happens: fill, make, carry away, fall out, leave · To what, where: pocket, small hole, you, track, streets
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, peas), 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 | Fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 3 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fill | obj | ||
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pocket | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 peas | case |
| 6 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 make | cc |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Fill | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hole | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hole | amod |
| 12 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 pocket | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pocket | det |
| 15 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hole | nmod | ||
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 carried | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 carried | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 carried | advmod |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 carried | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 carried | aux:pass |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 make | advcl |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 carried | advmod |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 carried | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fall | punct |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fall | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 fall | aux |
| 28 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Fill | parataxis |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 fall | compound:prt |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 leave | cc |
| 31 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 fall | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 track | det |
| 33 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leave | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 streets | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 streets | det |
| 36 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 leave | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fill | punct |
| 38 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | imperative | you not said here | your pocket | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | a small hole | the pocket | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | ||||
| 3 | carry away a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | you | then; again | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | fall out | future | peas = pea | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | leave | infinitive | peas = pea not said here | a track | the streets | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent track=Theme in street=Location |
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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