Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 39
‘I must go into the forest and guard my treasures from the wicked dwarfs.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: go, guard, treasure · To what, where: forest, treasures
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 guard | cc |
| 9 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 11 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 guard | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 dwarfs | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dwarfs | det |
| 14 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dwarfs | amod |
| 15 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 guard | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | must | I | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | guard | infinitive | I not said here | my treasures | from the wicked dwarfs | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent treasure=Beneficiary from dwarf=Theme | |||
| 3 | treasure | my | nom treasure «possession transitive»: 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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