Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 180
And the cook said, ‘Yes, you may go, but be back again in half an hour’s time, to rake out the ashes.’
Who acts: cook, you · What happens: say, go, be, rake out · To what, where: ashes · 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 (cook, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cook | det |
| 3 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 7 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 11 go | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Yes | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 back | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 back | cc |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 back | cop |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 back | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 18 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 20 hour | det:predet |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hour | det |
| 20 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 time | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 hour | case |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 back | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rake | punct |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 rake | mark |
| 25 | rake | rake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 rake | compound:prt |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ashes | det |
| 28 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 rake | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the cook | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | may | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | again; time | back property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rake out | to-infinitive | you not said here | the ashes | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ash=Initial_Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/59/180/