Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 15

‘Yes,’ said he; ‘and now let us take a walk a little way out of the town.’

Who acts: dog, us · What happens: say, let, take · To what, where: us, walk, town · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, us), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
8	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 let	cc
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 let	advmod
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 walk	det
15	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 way	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 way	amod
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obl:unmarked
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 town	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 town	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 town	det
22	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	dog					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	infinitive		us		now		tree rules
3	take	infinitive	us not said here	a walk	the town		a little way obl:unmarked	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent walk=Theme out town=Initial_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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