Grimms' Fairy Tales, Second Story, sentence 24
‘Then let him come upstairs,’ said Mrs Fox, and ordered the servant to prepare the wedding feast.
Who acts: Fox, Mrs Fox, servant · What happens: let, come, say, order, prepare · To what, where: Fox, servant, wedding feast · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Second Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, Mrs Fox, servant), 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 let | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Fox | compound |
| 11 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ordered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ordered | cc |
| 14 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 servant | det |
| 16 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ordered | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 prepare | mark |
| 18 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ordered | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 feast | det |
| 20 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feast | compound |
| 21 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 prepare | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | Fox | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | Fox not said here | upstairs property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Mrs Fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | order | past | the servant | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | prepare not said to happen | to-infinitive | the servant not said here | the wedding feast | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=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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