Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 16

Only you must take care to make my bed well, and to shake it thoroughly till the feathers fly--for then there is snow on the earth.

Who acts: you, feathers, snow · What happens: take, make, shake, fly, be · To what, where: care, bed, earth

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, feathers, snow), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	4 take	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	advcl
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bed	nmod:poss
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 make	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shake	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shake	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	14 shake	mark
14	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 shake	obj
16	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	14 shake	advmod
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	20 fly	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 feathers	det
19	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fly	nsubj
20	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 shake	advcl
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 is	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 then	case
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 is	obl
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 is	expl
25	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 shake	conj
26	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 is	nsubj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 earth	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 earth	det
29	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 is	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	must	you	care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	my bed		well property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bed=Product
3	shake	to-infinitive		bed		thoroughly property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	fly	present	the feathers				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	be	present	snow		the earth; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location

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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