Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 8
Do you sleep or do you wake?’
Who acts: you · What happens: sleep, wake
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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sleep | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 sleep | nsubj |
| 3 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 wake | cc |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wake | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wake | nsubj |
| 7 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sleep | conj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sleep | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present · do-support | you | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wake | present · do-support | you | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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