Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 4
Shoot into the midst of them, and one will fall down dead: the cloak will fall too; take it, it is a wishing-cloak, and when you wear it you will find yourself at any place where you may wish to be.
Who acts: Shoot, cloak, you · What happens: fall down, fall, take, be, wear, find · To what, where: cloak, wishing cloak, yourself, place
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 (Shoot, cloak, 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 | Shoot | shoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fall | nsubj |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 midst | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 midst | det |
| 4 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shoot | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 midst | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fall | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fall | cc |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 fall | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 fall | aux |
| 11 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 fall | compound:prt |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fall | xcomp |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 fall | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cloak | det |
| 16 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fall | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fall | aux |
| 18 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fall | parataxis |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 fall | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fall | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 take | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 cloak | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 cloak | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 cloak | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 cloak | det |
| 27 | wishing | wishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cloak | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 wishing | punct |
| 29 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 find | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 find | cc |
| 32 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 34 wear | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 wear | nsubj |
| 34 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 find | advcl |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 wear | obj |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 find | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 find | aux |
| 38 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fall | conj |
| 39 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 find | obj |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 place | case |
| 41 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 place | det |
| 42 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 find | obl |
| 43 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 46 wish | advmod |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 wish | nsubj |
| 45 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 wish | aux |
| 46 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 place | acl:relcl |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 be | mark |
| 48 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 wish | xcomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down | future | Shoot into the midst of birds | dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | future | the cloak | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | the cloak not said here | cloak | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | cloak | a wishing cloak | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wear | present | you | cloak | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | find | future | you | yourself | any place | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme at place=Asset | |||
| 7 | wish | may | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | be not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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