Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 21
Then the old woman said, ‘Now is the time for getting the bird’s heart.’
Who acts: old woman, time · What happens: say, be, get · To what, where: time, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, time), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 time | punct |
| 8 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 time | advmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 time | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 getting | mark |
| 13 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 time | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bird | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 bird | case |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 getting | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 time | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the time | now | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | gerund | the time not said here | the bird's heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Stimulus |
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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