Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, sentence 6
The bean said: ‘I too have escaped with a whole skin, but if the old woman had got me into the pan, I should have been made into broth without any mercy, like my comrades.’
Who acts: bean, I, old woman · What happens: say, escape, get, make · To what, where: me, pan, I, broth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bean, I, old woman), 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 bean | det |
| 2 | bean | bean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 escaped | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 escaped | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 escaped | nsubj |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 escaped | advmod |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 escaped | aux |
| 9 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 skin | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 skin | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 skin | amod |
| 13 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 escaped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 got | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 got | cc |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 got | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 woman | amod |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 got | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 got | aux |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 said | ccomp |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 got | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 pan | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pan | det |
| 25 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 got | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 made | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 made | nsubj |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 made | aux |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 made | aux |
| 30 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 made | aux:pass |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | conj |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 broth | case |
| 33 | broth | broth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obl |
| 34 | without | without | ADP | _ | 36 mercy | case |
| 35 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 mercy | det |
| 36 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 comrades | punct |
| 38 | like | like | ADP | _ | 40 comrades | case |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 40 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 made | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the bean | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | escape | present · perfect | I | with a whole skin | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | the old woman | me | the pan | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | make | should · perfect · passive | I | broth | without any mercy; like my comrades | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into broth=Product |
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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