Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 28
‘If that’s all your grief,’ said the huntsman, ‘I’ll take you there with all my heart’; so he drew her under his cloak, and the moment he wished to be on the granite mountain they were both there.
Who acts: that, grief, I, moment, diamonds · What happens: be, say, take, draw, wish · To what, where: grief, huntsman, you, woman, cloak, granite mountain · 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 (that, grief, I, moment), 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 | _ | 7 grief | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 grief | mark |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 grief | nsubj |
| 4 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 grief | cop |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 grief | det:predet |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 grief | nmod:poss |
| 7 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grief | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 grief | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 huntsman | det |
| 12 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 take | nsubj |
| 16 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | aux |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 take | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 heart | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 heart | det:predet |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heart | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obl |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 drew | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 drew | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 drew | nsubj |
| 28 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 drew | iobj |
| 30 | under | under | ADP | _ | 32 cloak | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 32 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drew | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 wished | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 wished | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 moment | det |
| 36 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 wished | nsubj |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 wished | nsubj |
| 38 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 drew | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 there | mark |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 there | cop |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 mountain | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 mountain | det |
| 43 | granite | granite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 mountain | compound |
| 44 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 there | obl |
| 45 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 there | nsubj |
| 46 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 there | cop |
| 47 | both | both | ADV | _ | 48 there | advmod |
| 48 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 wished | advcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | that | your grief | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | your grief | the huntsman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | future | I | you | there | with my heart | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | ||
| 4 | draw | past | grief | woman | huntsman's cloak | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 5 | wish | past | the moment | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | diamonds = diamond | the granite mountain | both, there property | tree rules |
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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