Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 92
The others laughed, and said: ‘Seek one for yourself when we are gone, we will leave one behind us in the stable for you.’
Who acts: others, we · What happens: laugh, say, seek, be, leave · To what, where: one, stable · 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 (others, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 others | det |
| 2 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Seek | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Seek | punct |
| 9 | Seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 Seek | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 yourself | case |
| 12 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 Seek | obl |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 gone | mark |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 gone | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 gone | cop |
| 16 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Seek | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leave | punct |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 leave | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 leave | aux |
| 20 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Seek | parataxis |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 leave | obj |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 23 us | case |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 one | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 stable | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stable | det |
| 26 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leave | obl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 leave | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the others | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the others not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seek | infinitive | one | for yourself | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Location for yourself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | we | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | leave | future | we | one | the stable | behind us; for you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent one=Theme in stable=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.
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