Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 45
Come down to us," continued they; "we will do thee no harm."
Who acts: you, huntsmen, we · What happens: come down, continue, do · To what, where: us, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, huntsmen, we), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 us | case |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Come | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
| 7 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 continued | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Come | conj |
| 14 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 do | obj |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 harm | det |
| 16 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | imperative | you not said here | us | down property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | continue in a quote | past | huntsmen = huntsman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | future | we | thee | 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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