Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 39

But she answered, "I like that! one of you might fall on my head," and so went on.

Who acts: thing, one · What happens: answer, fall, go on · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (thing, one), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 answered	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 that	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 that	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 that	nsubj
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 one	nsubj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 that	punct
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 fall	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 one	nmod
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fall	aux
14	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	ccomp
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 head	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 head	nmod:poss
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fall	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fall	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 fall	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	conj
23	on	on	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	answer speech: express	past	thing		tree rules
2	fall in a quote	might	one of you	my head	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location
3	go on	past	thing not said here		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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