Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 20
If we care to sing in tune, we may get up some kind of a concert; so come along with us.’
Who acts: we · What happens: care, sing, get up, come along · To what, where: tune, kind
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 (we), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 care | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 care | nsubj |
| 3 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sing | mark |
| 5 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 care | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tune | case |
| 7 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 care | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 get | compound:prt |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 kind | det |
| 14 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 concert | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 concert | det |
| 17 | concert | concert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kind | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 get | conj |
| 21 | along | along | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 us | case |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 come | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care a condition, not said to happen | present | we | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | we not said here | tune | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tune=Location | ||||
| 3 | get up | may | we | some kind of a concert | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kind=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come along | infinitive | we not said here | with us; along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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