Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 6
‘In the first place buy yourself an A B C book of the kind which has a cock on the frontispiece; in the second, turn your cart and your two oxen into money, and get yourself some clothes, and whatsoever else pertains to medicine; thirdly, have a sign painted for yourself with the words: “I am Doctor Knowall,” and have that nailed up above your house-door.’
Who acts: you, kind, heart · What happens: buy, have, turn, get, pertain, paint · To what, where: B C book, yourself, first place, cock, frontispiece, cart · 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 (you, kind, heart), 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 | _ | 6 buy | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 place | amod |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buy | obl |
| 6 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 buy | iobj |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 book | det |
| 9 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 book | det |
| 10 | B | B | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 book | compound |
| 11 | C | c | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 book | amod |
| 12 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buy | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 kind | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kind | det |
| 15 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 book | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 has | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 kind | acl:relcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cock | det |
| 19 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 has | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 frontispiece | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 frontispiece | det |
| 22 | frontispiece | frontispiece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cock | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 buy | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 second | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 second | det |
| 26 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 buy | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 turn | punct |
| 28 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 buy | conj |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 cart | nmod:poss |
| 30 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 turn | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 oxen | cc |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 oxen | nmod:poss |
| 33 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 oxen | nummod |
| 34 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 cart | conj |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 money | case |
| 36 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 turn | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 get | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 get | cc |
| 39 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 buy | parataxis |
| 40 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 39 get | obj |
| 41 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 clothes | det |
| 42 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 39 get | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 pertains | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 pertains | cc |
| 45 | whatsoever | whatsoever | ADV | _ | 47 pertains | advmod |
| 46 | else | else | ADV | _ | 45 whatsoever | advmod |
| 47 | pertains | pertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 get | advcl |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 medicine | mark |
| 49 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 pertains | obj |
| 50 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 53 have | punct |
| 51 | thirdly | thirdly | ADV | _ | 53 have | advmod |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 have | punct |
| 53 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 buy | parataxis |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 sign | det |
| 55 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 have | obj |
| 56 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 55 sign | acl |
| 57 | for | for | ADP | _ | 58 yourself | case |
| 58 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 56 painted | obl |
| 59 | with | with | ADP | _ | 61 words | case |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 words | det |
| 61 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 painted | obl |
| 62 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 66 Doctor | punct |
| 63 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 66 Doctor | punct |
| 64 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 66 Doctor | nsubj |
| 65 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 66 Doctor | cop |
| 66 | Doctor | Doctor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 buy | parataxis |
| 67 | Knowall | Knowall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 66 Doctor | flat |
| 68 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 buy | punct |
| 69 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 buy | punct |
| 70 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 71 have | cc |
| 71 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 buy | conj |
| 72 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 73 nailed | nsubj:pass |
| 73 | nailed | nail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 71 have | xcomp |
| 74 | up | up | ADP | _ | 73 nailed | compound:prt |
| 75 | above | above | ADP | _ | 79 door | case |
| 76 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 79 door | nmod:poss |
| 77 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 79 door | compound |
| 78 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 77 house | punct |
| 79 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 73 nailed | obl |
| 80 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 buy | punct |
| 81 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | imperative | you not said here | a B C book of the kind | yourself | the first place | in the second | tree rules | |
| 2 | have | present | the kind | a cock | the frontispiece | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Patient | |||
| 3 | turn | infinitive | you not said here | your cart and your two oxen | money | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cart=Theme into money=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | get | infinitive | yourself | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary clothes=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pertain | present | medicine | whatsoever property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have | present | a sign | thirdly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Patient | ||||
| 7 | paint | participle | a sign not said here | for yourself; with the words | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with word=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is a in a quote | present | heart | Doctor | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | have | present | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | nail up | participle · passive | that | your house door | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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