Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 188
When she went into the kitchen to her work, and began to rake the ashes, the cook said, ‘Let that alone till the morning, and heat the king’s soup; I should like to run up now and give a peep: but take care you don’t let a hair fall into it, or you will run a chance of never eating again.’
Who acts: truth, cook, heat, I, you, hair · What happens: go, begin, rake, say, let, soup · To what, where: kitchen, ashes, peep, care, hair, heat · 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 (truth, cook, heat, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | advcl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 kitchen | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kitchen | det |
| 6 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 work | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 work | nmod:poss |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 rake | mark |
| 14 | rake | rake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ashes | det |
| 16 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rake | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cook | det |
| 19 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Let | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 Let | punct |
| 23 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | ccomp |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 alone | mark |
| 25 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 23 Let | fixed |
| 26 | till | till | ADP | _ | 28 morning | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 morning | det |
| 28 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Let | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 soup | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 soup | cc |
| 31 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 soup | nsubj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 king | det |
| 33 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 soup | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 king | case |
| 35 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 like | punct |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 like | nsubj |
| 38 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 like | aux |
| 39 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 run | mark |
| 41 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 like | xcomp |
| 42 | up | up | ADP | _ | 41 run | compound:prt |
| 43 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 run | advmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 give | cc |
| 45 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 run | conj |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 peep | det |
| 47 | peep | peep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 give | obj |
| 48 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 50 take | punct |
| 49 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 50 take | cc |
| 50 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 51 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 take | obj |
| 52 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 55 let | nsubj |
| 53 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 let | aux |
| 54 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 55 let | advmod |
| 55 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 take | parataxis |
| 56 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 57 hair | det |
| 57 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 let | obj |
| 58 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 55 let | xcomp |
| 59 | into | into | ADP | _ | 60 it | case |
| 60 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 fall | obl |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 run | punct |
| 62 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 65 run | cc |
| 63 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 65 run | nsubj |
| 64 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 65 run | aux |
| 65 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 take | conj |
| 66 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 67 chance | det |
| 67 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 run | obj |
| 68 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 70 eating | mark |
| 69 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 70 eating | advmod |
| 70 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 67 chance | acl |
| 71 | again | again | ADV | _ | 70 eating | advmod |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 50 take | punct |
| 73 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | truth | the kitchen | to truth's work | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location to work=Destination | |||
| 2 | begin | past | truth not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | rake | to-infinitive | truth not said here | the ashes | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ash=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the cook | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | morning | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | soup | heat | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | run up not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | now | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | give | infinitive | I not said here | a peep | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peep=Theme | ||||
| 10 | take | infinitive | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||||
| 11 | not let | present · do-support | you | a hair | tree rules | ||||
| 12 | fall | infinitive | a hair not said here | heat | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into it=Result | ||||
| 13 | run | future | you | a chance | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chance=Trajectory | ||||
| 14 | not eat | gerund | a chance not said here | again | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 15 | work | truth | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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