Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 73
If we go to war with him, when he strikes out seven will fall at one stroke, and nothing will be left for us to do."
Who acts: we, war, seven, us · What happens: go, strike out, fall, leave, do · To what, where: war, one stroke, nothing
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 (we, war, seven, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 go | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 strikes | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 war | case |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 strikes | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 strikes | nsubj |
| 11 | strikes | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 strikes | compound:prt |
| 13 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 fall | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 fall | aux |
| 15 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 strikes | ccomp |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 stroke | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 stroke | nummod |
| 18 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fall | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 left | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 left | cc |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 left | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 left | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 left | aux:pass |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 strikes | parataxis |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 do | nsubj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 left | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 strikes | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 strikes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go a condition, not said to happen | present | we | war | with war | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | strike out | present | war | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall | future | seven | one stroke | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at stroke=Location | ||||
| 4 | leave | future · passive | nothing | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | us | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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