Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 100

Take care!" said the second, "bears are fond of sweets, and if you please him he will eat you up, perhaps!" "

Who acts: you, bears, bear · What happens: take, say, be, please, eat up · To what, where: care, second, bear, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bears, bear), 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	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 second	det
7	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
10	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fond	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fond	cop
12	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 sweets	case
14	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fond	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eat	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 eat	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 please	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 please	nsubj
19	please	please	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 eat	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 please	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 eat	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 eat	aux
23	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Take	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 eat	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 eat	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 perhaps	punct
27	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	23 eat	advmod
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	care		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	you not said here	the second		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent second=Topic
3	is	present	bears		of sweets; fond property	tree rules
4	please a condition, not said to happen	present	you	bear		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
5	eat up	future	bear	you	perhaps property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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