Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 172
Then they said, ‘Yes, Miss Cat-skin, you will do for the kitchen; you can sweep up the ashes, and do things of that sort.’
Who acts: father, you · What happens: say, do, sweep up · To what, where: Miss Cat skin, ashes, things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 skin | punct |
| 6 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 11 skin | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Yes | punct |
| 8 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 skin | compound |
| 9 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skin | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Cat | punct |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 skin | acl:relcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 kitchen | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 kitchen | det |
| 18 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 sweep | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 sweep | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 sweep | aux |
| 22 | sweep | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 sweep | compound:prt |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ashes | det |
| 25 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sweep | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 do | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 do | cc |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sweep | conj |
| 29 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 do | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 sort | case |
| 31 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 sort | det |
| 32 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 things | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 sweep | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 sweep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | father | Miss Cat skin | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | do | future | you | Miss Cat skin not said here | for the kitchen | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | sweep up | can | you | the ashes | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ash=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | do | present | you not said here | things of that sort | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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