Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 20
So when he went in with his dish, the peasant nudged his wife, and said: ‘Grete, that is the second.’
Who acts: doctor, peasant, Grete, that · What happens: go in, nudge, say, be · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Doctor Knowall. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctor, peasant, Grete, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 dish | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dish | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nudged | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 peasant | det |
| 11 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nudged | nsubj |
| 12 | nudged | nudge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nudged | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 Grete | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Grete | punct |
| 20 | Grete | Grete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 second | punct |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 second | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 second | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 second | det |
| 25 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 Grete | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | doctor | with doctor's dish | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with dish=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | nudge | past | the peasant | doctor's wife | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Grete | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | that | second property | tree rules |
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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