Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 10
But the second son, too, said sensibly enough: ‘What I give you will be taken away from myself; be off!’ and he left the little man standing and went on.
Who acts: second son, I, man · What happens: say off, give, take away, leave, stand, go on · To what, where: you, little man
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second son, I, man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 son | amod |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 too | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | sensibly | sensibly | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 sensibly | advmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 ‘ | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 13 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 ‘ | obj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 give | nsubj |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 What | acl:relcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 taken | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 taken | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 taken | aux:pass |
| 19 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 give | ccomp |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 taken | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 myself | case |
| 22 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 taken | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 off | punct |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 off | cop |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 said | compound:prt |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 left | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 left | nsubj |
| 30 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 man | det |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 man | amod |
| 33 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 left | obj |
| 34 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 left | advcl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 went | cc |
| 36 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 left | conj |
| 37 | on | on | ADV | _ | 36 went | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say off speech: assert | past | the second son | sensibly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take away | future · passive | you | from myself; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme from myself=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | man | the little man | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stand | gerund | man not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | go on | past | man not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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