Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 9
‘That you should dig all round my garden for me, tomorrow.’
Who acts: That · What happens: dig · To what, where: garden
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 (That), 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 dig | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 dig | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 dig | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 dig | aux |
| 5 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 garden | advmod |
| 7 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 garden | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 garden | nmod:poss |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dig | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 dig | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tomorrow | punct |
| 13 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dig | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dig | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 dig | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | should | That | my garden | tomorrow | for me | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent garden=Result for i=Beneficiary |
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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