Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 11
I am boiling warm beer with butter, Will you be my guest for supper?’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: boil, be · To what, where: boiling warm beer, guest
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, First Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 beer | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beer | cop |
| 3 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 beer | amod |
| 4 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 beer | amod |
| 5 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 butter | case |
| 7 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beer | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 guest | punct |
| 9 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 guest | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 guest | nsubj |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 guest | cop |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 guest | nmod:poss |
| 13 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beer | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 supper | case |
| 15 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 guest | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 guest | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 guest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | I | boiling warm beer and my guest | with butter | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | future | you | my guest | for supper | 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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