Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 101
You must mind and do his will," continued the eldest, "or he will begin growling!"
Who acts: You, bear · What happens: mind, do, continue, begin, growl · To what, where: eldest
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, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 mind | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | aux |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 continued | ccomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 do | cc |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mind | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 will | nmod:poss |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 10 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eldest | det |
| 12 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 continued | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 continued | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 continued | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 begin | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 begin | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 begin | aux |
| 18 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 continued | conj |
| 19 | growling | growl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 begin | xcomp |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 begin | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 begin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind | must | You | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | You not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | continue in a quote | past | the eldest | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | begin | future | bear | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | growl | gerund | bear not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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