Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 19
Send him to me, and I will soon polish him.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: send, polish · To what, where: sexton, me
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 (you, I), 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 | Send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Send | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Send | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 polish | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 polish | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 polish | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 polish | aux |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 polish | advmod |
| 10 | polish | polish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Send | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 polish | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Send | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | imperative | you not said here | sexton | me | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to i=Destination | |||
| 2 | polish | future | I | sexton | soon property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination |
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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