Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 93
Come, take these two wicked girls, they are tender morsels for you, fat as young quails; for mercy’s sake eat them!’
Who acts: you, these, girls, young · What happens: come, take, girl, be, quail, eat · To what, where: tender morsels, girls
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 (you, these, girls, young), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 4 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 girls | nsubj |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 girls | nummod |
| 6 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girls | amod |
| 7 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 morsels | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 morsels | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 morsels | cop |
| 11 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 morsels | amod |
| 12 | morsels | morsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Come | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 morsels | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fat | punct |
| 16 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 morsels | conj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 quails | mark |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 quails | nsubj |
| 19 | quails | quail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 fat | advcl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 eat | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 sake | case |
| 22 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sake | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 mercy | case |
| 24 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 eat | obl |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 eat | obj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | you not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | girl | these | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | girls = girl | tender morsels | for you | tree rules | |||
| 5 | be | girls = girl not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | quail | present | young | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | eat | present | girls = girl | for mercy's sake | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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