Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 164
Then he said: ‘Ha, ha, that is certainly my little cousin, who died only a few days ago,’ and he beckoned with his finger, and cried: ‘Come, little cousin, come.’
Who acts: man, that, little cousin · What happens: say, be, die, beckon, cry, come · To what, where: little cousin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, that, little cousin), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 cousin | punct |
| 6 | Ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 15 cousin | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ha | punct |
| 8 | ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 15 cousin | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cousin | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 cousin | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cousin | cop |
| 12 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 15 cousin | advmod |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cousin | amod |
| 15 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 died | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 died | nsubj |
| 18 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cousin | acl:relcl |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 days | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 days | det |
| 21 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 days | amod |
| 22 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 18 died | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 died | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 cousin | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 beckoned | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 beckoned | nsubj |
| 28 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 finger | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 finger | nmod:poss |
| 31 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 beckoned | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 cried | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 cried | cc |
| 34 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 Come | punct |
| 36 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 Come | punct |
| 37 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 cried | ccomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 cousin | punct |
| 39 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 cousin | amod |
| 40 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Come | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 come | punct |
| 42 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 Come | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 Come | punct |
| 44 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | man | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | my little cousin | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | die | past | my little cousin | ago property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | beckon | past | man | with man's finger | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | man not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | come | infinitive | little cousin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | come | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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