Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 23
‘Well,’ said the old witch, ‘we have got the bird’s heart, but not the wishing-cloak yet, and that we must also get.’
Who acts: we · What happens: say, get · To what, where: old witch, 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 (we), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 witch | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 witch | amod |
| 8 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | aux |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | ccomp |
| 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 got | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cloak | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 cloak | cc |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 cloak | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cloak | det |
| 22 | wishing | wishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cloak | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 wishing | punct |
| 24 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 25 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 got | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 get | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 get | cc |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 get | mark |
| 29 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 get | nsubj |
| 30 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 get | aux |
| 31 | also | also | ADV | _ | 32 get | advmod |
| 32 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 get | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old witch | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | present · perfect | we | the bird's heart | yet | the wishing cloak obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | get | must | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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