Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 29
Do as well as that," said he to the other, "if you have the strength."
Who acts: that, you · What happens: say, have · To what, where: strength · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, you), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 that | aux |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 5 that | cc |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 as | fixed |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 2 as | fixed |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 that | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 that | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 other | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 other | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 strength | det |
| 19 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | that | to the other | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to other=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | you | the strength | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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