Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 22

Within lie two lions with open jaws, but if you throw down to each a loaf of bread they will be quiet.

Who acts: you, lions · What happens: lie, throw down, be · To what, where: two lions, loaf

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 (you, lions), 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	Within	within	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 lie	aux
2	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 lions	nummod
4	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lie	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 jaws	case
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 jaws	amod
7	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lie	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 quiet	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 quiet	cc
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 throw	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 throw	nsubj
12	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 quiet	advcl
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 throw	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 loaf	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 loaf	det
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 loaf	det
17	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 throw	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 bread	case
19	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 loaf	nmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 quiet	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 quiet	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 quiet	cop
23	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lie	parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie			two lions		with open jaws	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lion=Theme
2	throw down a condition, not said to happen	present	you		each loaf of bread	down property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent to loaf=Destination
3	is	future	lions = lion			quiet property	tree rules

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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