Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 38
‘What do we want with servants?’ said he; ‘you must do for yourself whatever is to be done.
Who acts: we, fiddler, you · What happens: want, say, do · To what, where: whatever · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, fiddler, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 want | obj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 want | nsubj |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 servants | case |
| 7 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 want | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 yourself | case |
| 18 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 do | obl |
| 19 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 done | obj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 done | aux:pass |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 done | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 done | aux:pass |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 do | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present · do-support | we | with servants | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | fiddler | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | must | you | for yourself | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | do | present · passive | you not said here | whatever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: whatever=Eventuality |
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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