Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 136
They came back and whispered to him, "Come, be serious, and reach something out to us."
Who acts: thieves · What happens: come back, whisper, come, be, reach out · To what, where: rascal, something, us · 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 (thieves), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 whispered | cc |
| 5 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 whispered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 10 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 whispered | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 serious | punct |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 serious | cop |
| 13 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Come | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reach | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reach | cc |
| 16 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 serious | parataxis |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 reach | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 reach | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 us | case |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 reach | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | thieves = thief | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | thieves = thief not said here | rascal | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | infinitive | serious property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | reach out in a quote | infinitive | something | us | out property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
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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