Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 5
Cut open the dead bird, take out its heart and keep it, and you will find a piece of gold under your pillow every morning when you rise.
Who acts: you · What happens: open, take out, keep, find, rise · To what, where: dead bird, heart, cloak, piece, pillow · 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), 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 | Cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 open | aux |
| 2 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bird | det |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bird | amod |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 open | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 open | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 take | compound:prt |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 heart | nmod:poss |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 keep | cc |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 take | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 keep | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 find | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 find | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 find | aux |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 open | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 piece | det |
| 20 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 piece | nmod |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 pillow | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 pillow | nmod:poss |
| 25 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obl |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 morning | det |
| 27 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 rise | advmod |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 rise | nsubj |
| 30 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 find | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | infinitive | the dead bird | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take out | infinitive | cloak's heart | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | |||||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | cloak | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | future | you | a piece of gold | your pillow | morning | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent piece=Attribute clause=Theme | ||
| 5 | rise | present | you | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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