Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 6
‘Hark ye!’ said the ass, ‘I am going to the great city to turn musician: suppose you go with me, and try what you can do in the same way?’
Who acts: Hark, I, you · What happens: say, go, turn, suppose, try, do · To what, where: great city, musician, same way · 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 (Hark, I, 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 | _ | 2 Hark | punct |
| 2 | Hark | Hark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 Hark | appos |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hark | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hark | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ass | det |
| 8 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 going | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 going | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 going | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | aux |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 city | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 city | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 city | amod |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 going | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 turn | mark |
| 19 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 going | advcl |
| 20 | musician | musician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turn | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 suppose | punct |
| 22 | suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 go | nsubj |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 suppose | ccomp |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 go | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 try | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 try | cc |
| 29 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 suppose | ccomp |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 33 do | obj |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 do | nsubj |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 do | aux |
| 33 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 try | xcomp |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 way | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 way | det |
| 36 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 way | amod |
| 37 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 do | obl |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 29 try | punct |
| 39 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hark | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | I | the great city | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | turn | to-infinitive | I not said here | musician | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent musician=Theme | ||||
| 4 | suppose | infinitive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | go | present | you | with me | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | try | infinitive | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 7 | do not said to happen | can | you | the same way | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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