Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 3
Then he said to his beloved: ‘I must now go and leave you, I give you a ring as a remembrance of me.
Who acts: son, I · What happens: say, go, leave, give, remember · To what, where: you, ring, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 beloved | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 beloved | nmod:poss |
| 6 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 go | advmod |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 leave | cc |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 leave | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 give | nsubj |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 ring | det |
| 21 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 remembrance | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 remembrance | det |
| 24 | remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 remembrance | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | son | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | must | I | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | I not said here | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | present | I | a ring | you | as a remembrance of me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient ring=Theme | ||
| 5 | remember | me | nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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