Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 131

The thieves were alarmed, and said, "But do speak softly, so as not to waken any one!"

What happens: alarm, say, speak, not waken · To what, where: thieves, one · 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: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thieves	det
2	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 alarmed	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 alarmed	aux:pass
4	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 alarmed	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 speak	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 speak	punct
10	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 speak	cc
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 speak	aux
12	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	softly	softly	ADV	_	12 speak	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 waken	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	19 waken	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 waken	mark
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 waken	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 waken	mark
19	waken	waken	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 alarmed	parataxis
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 waken	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 waken	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 waken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	alarm	past · passive	the thieves		tree rules
2	say speech: express	past			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	speak speech: other in a quote	present · do-support		softly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not waken in a quote	to-infinitive	any one		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=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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