Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 25
This deed of thine shall cost thee all thou art worth.’
Who acts: deed · What happens: cost · To what, where: thee
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 (deed), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 deed | det |
| 2 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cost | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 thine | case |
| 4 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 deed | nmod |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 cost | aux |
| 6 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 cost | obj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 art | nsubj |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 art | nsubj |
| 10 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cost | parataxis |
| 11 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 art | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cost | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 cost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | shall | this deed of thine | thee | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme thou=Value |
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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