Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 24
‘Let us leave him that,’ said the young lady; ‘he has already lost his wealth.’
Who acts: you, us, young lady, huntsman · What happens: let, leave, say, lose · To what, where: us, huntsman, wealth · 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 (you, us, young lady, huntsman), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 leave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lady | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lady | amod |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 lost | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 lost | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lost | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 lost | aux |
| 17 | already | already | ADV | _ | 18 lost | advmod |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Let | parataxis |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lost | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | us not said here | huntsman | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme that=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the young lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lose | present · perfect | huntsman | huntsman's wealth | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Eventuality |
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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