Grimms' Fairy Tales, Old Sultan, sentence 12
Wife, go home, and give him a good dinner, and let him have my old cushion to sleep on as long as he lives.’
Who acts: Wife, Sultan · What happens: go, give, let, have, sleep on, live · To what, where: good dinner, Sultan, old cushion
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Old Sultan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wife, Sultan), 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 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wife | punct |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 give | cc |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dinner | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dinner | amod |
| 11 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 let | cc |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cushion | nmod:poss |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cushion | amod |
| 19 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 sleep | mark |
| 21 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 have | advcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 sleep | compound:prt |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 long | advmod |
| 24 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 sleep | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 lives | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 lives | nsubj |
| 27 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 long | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | Wife | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | Wife not said here | a good dinner | Sultan | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dinner=Theme | |||
| 3 | let | infinitive | Wife not said here | Sultan | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | infinitive | Sultan not said here | my old cushion | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cushion=Patient | ||||
| 5 | sleep on | to-infinitive | Sultan not said here | long property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | live | present | Sultan | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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