Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 172

When I have given him a blow, if he is not killed by it, you must cut him down and hew his body to pieces."

Who acts: I, you · What happens: give, not kill, cut down, hew · To what, where: blow, man, body

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 (I, you), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 given	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 given	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 cut	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 given	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 blow	det
7	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 killed	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 killed	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 killed	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 killed	aux:pass
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 killed	advmod
13	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 given	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 killed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 given	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 cut	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 cut	aux
19	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cut	obj
21	down	down	ADP	_	19 cut	compound:prt
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hew	cc
23	hew	hew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 cut	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 body	nmod:poss
25	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hew	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 pieces	case
27	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hew	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 cut	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	present · perfect	I	a blow	man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient blow=Theme
2	not kill a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		man		by blow	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	cut down	must	you	man			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product
4	hew	infinitive	you not said here	man's body		to pieces result	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent body=Patient to piece=Result

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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