Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 5
No; the danger is too great," said the King; "I prefer to die."
Who acts: danger, King, I · What happens: be, say, prefer, die · 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 (danger, King, I), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 great | discourse |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 danger | det |
| 4 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 great | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 great | cop |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 great | advmod |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 great | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 prefer | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 prefer | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 prefer | nsubj |
| 16 | prefer | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 great | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 die | mark |
| 18 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 prefer | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 great | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the danger | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | prefer | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | die not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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