Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 39
Now make the fire, and put on water and cook my supper, for I am very tired.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: make, put, cook, be · To what, where: fire, water, supper
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 (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 make | advmod |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fire | det |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 make | parataxis |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cook | cc |
| 11 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 put | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 supper | nmod:poss |
| 13 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cook | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tired | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 tired | case |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 tired | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 tired | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 tired | advmod |
| 19 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cook | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | the fire | now | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product | |||
| 2 | put | participle | water | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on water=Destination | |||||
| 3 | cook | infinitive | my supper | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent supper=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | present | I | tired property | tree rules |
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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