Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 200
‘I am good for nothing,’ said she, ‘but to be scullion-girl, and to have boots and shoes thrown at my head.’
Who acts: I, truth · What happens: be, say, have, throw · To what, where: scullion girl, boots, head · 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 (I, truth), 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 | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 good | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | cop |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 nothing | case |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 good | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 girl | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 girl | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 girl | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 girl | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 girl | cop |
| 16 | scullion | scullion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 girl | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 scullion | punct |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 have | cc |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 have | mark |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | parataxis |
| 23 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 have | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 shoes | cc |
| 25 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 boots | conj |
| 26 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 boots | acl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 head | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 head | nmod:poss |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thrown | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | for nothing; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | truth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | scullion girl | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | to-infinitive | boots and shoes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boot=Patient | |||||
| 5 | throw | participle | boots and shoes not said here | my head | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at head=Destination |
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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