Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 15
Stay with me; if you will do all the work in the house properly, you shall be the better for it.
Who acts: you · What happens: stay, do, be · To what, where: work, house
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Stay | obl |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Stay | conj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 work | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 work | det |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obl |
| 15 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 8 do | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 better | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 better | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 better | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 better | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 better | det |
| 21 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Stay | advcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 better | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | ||||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | future | you | all work | the house | properly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||
| 3 | is | shall | you | for house; good 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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