Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 13
‘Oh,’ said the ass, ‘by all means go with us to the great city; you are a good night singer, and may make your fortune as a musician.’
Who acts: you · What happens: say, mean, go, be, make · To what, where: ass, great city, good night singer, fortune · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians. 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ass | det |
| 7 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 means | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 means | punct |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 means | obl |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 means | ccomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 us | case |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 go | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 city | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 city | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 city | amod |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 singer | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 singer | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 singer | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 singer | det |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 singer | amod |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 singer | compound |
| 26 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 make | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 make | cc |
| 29 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 make | aux |
| 30 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 32 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 make | obj |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 musician | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 musician | det |
| 35 | musician | musician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 make | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 make | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the ass | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | by all | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | the great city | with us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | you | a good night singer | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | may | your fortune | as a musician | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fortune=Product |
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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