Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 78
Go quickly, and get another, and seek out the prettiest and rarest.’
Who acts: you · What happens: go, get, seek out · To what, where: another, prettiest
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 (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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 get | cc |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 get | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seek | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seek | cc |
| 9 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 seek | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prettiest | det |
| 12 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 seek | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rarest | cc |
| 14 | rarest | rare | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 prettiest | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | quickly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | another | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer another=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | seek out | infinitive | the prettiest | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pretty=Theme |
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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