Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 29
‘Now open the gates and doors all wide, And carry old Mr Fox outside.’
Who acts: you · What happens: open, carry · To what, where: gates, old Mr Fox
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 open | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 open | advmod |
| 3 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gates | det |
| 5 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 open | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 doors | cc |
| 7 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gates | conj |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 wide | advmod |
| 9 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 3 open | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carry | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carry | cc |
| 12 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 open | parataxis |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Fox | amod |
| 14 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Fox | compound |
| 15 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carry | obj |
| 16 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 12 carry | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 open | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | imperative | you not said here | the gates and doors | now | wide property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme | ||
| 2 | carry | present | old Mr Fox | outside property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme |
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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