Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 45
‘I see this work won’t do,’ said he: ‘try and spin; perhaps you will do that better.’
Who acts: I, work, man, you · What happens: see, not do, say, try, spin, do · To what, where: work, that · 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 (I, work, man, 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 | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 work | det |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 do | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 work | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 try | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 try | punct |
| 15 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spin | cc |
| 17 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 try | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 19 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 22 do | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 try | parataxis |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 do | obj |
| 24 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 do | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | this work | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not do | future | this work not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | try | infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | spin | infinitive | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | do | future | you | that | perhaps property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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