Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 116

It is so dangerous to walk on the ground in the dark," said he; "how easily a neck or a leg is broken!"

Who acts: passage, fellow · What happens: be, walk, say, break · To what, where: ground, neck · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (passage, fellow), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dangerous	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 dangerous	advmod
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 walk	mark
6	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dangerous	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walk	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 dark	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dark	det
12	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walk	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dangerous	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dangerous	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	parataxis
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 broken	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 broken	punct
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 easily	advmod
20	easily	easily	ADV	_	27 broken	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 neck	det
22	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 broken	nsubj:pass
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 leg	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 leg	det
25	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 neck	conj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 broken	aux:pass
27	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dangerous	parataxis
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 dangerous	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dangerous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	passage			dangerous property	tree rules
2	walk	to-infinitive	passage not said here		the ground	in the dark	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	fellow				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	break	present · passive		a neck or a leg		easily property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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