Grimms' Fairy Tales, Second Story, sentence 6
‘In milk I’m breaking bread so sweet, Will you be my guest, and eat?’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, break, eat · To what, where: milk, bread, guest
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’m | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 milk | case |
| 3 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ’m | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ’m | nsubj |
| 5 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 ’m | xcomp |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 breaking | obj |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 9 sweet | case |
| 9 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 breaking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 guest | punct |
| 11 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 guest | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 guest | nsubj |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 guest | cop |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 guest | nmod:poss |
| 15 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ’m | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eat | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 eat | cc |
| 18 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 ’m | conj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’m | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’m | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | I | milk | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | gerund | I not said here | bread | so sweet | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Patient | |||
| 3 | is a | future | you | my guest | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat | infinitive | I not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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