Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 31
‘Why, I see a table spread with all kinds of good things, and robbers sitting round it making merry.’
Who acts: I, robbers, table · What happens: see, spread, sit, make · To what, where: table, robbers
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 (I, robbers, table), 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 | _ | 8 spread | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 see | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 spread | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 table | det |
| 7 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 kinds | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 kinds | det |
| 11 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spread | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 things | case |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 things | amod |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 kinds | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 robbers | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 robbers | cc |
| 17 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spread | obl |
| 18 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 robbers | acl |
| 19 | round | round | ADP | _ | 21 making | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 making | nsubj |
| 21 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 sitting | advcl |
| 22 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 making | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spread | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | a table | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer table=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | spread | participle | robbers | with all kinds of good things | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | robbers not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | gerund | table | merry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material |
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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