Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 32
Just let twelve spinning-wheels be brought into the ante-chamber, and they will go to them and be pleased with them, and that is what no man would do.’
Who acts: you, twelve, wheels, that, man · What happens: let, spin, bring, go, be, do · To what, where: twelve, wheels, ante chamber, peas
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 (you, twelve, wheels, that), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 let | advmod |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 let | obj |
| 4 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 let | xcomp |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 wheels | punct |
| 6 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 brought | aux:pass |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 spinning | ccomp |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 chamber | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chamber | det |
| 11 | ante | ante | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chamber | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 ante | punct |
| 13 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 go | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 go | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | aux |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 go | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pleased | cc |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 pleased | cop |
| 23 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 go | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pleased | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 what | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 what | cc |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 what | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 what | cop |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 pleased | parataxis |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 man | det |
| 32 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 do | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 do | aux |
| 34 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 what | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | twelve | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spin | gerund | twelve not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive · passive | wheels | the ante chamber | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into chamber=Destination | ||||
| 4 | go | future | wheels = wheel | peas = pea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | is | infinitive | wheels = wheel not said here | with peas = pea; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | do | would | no man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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