Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 24

"Leave the poor creature alone," the other said; "it has not done you any harm."

Who acts: you, other · What happens: leave, say, not do · To what, where: poor creature, creature · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, other), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct
2	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 creature	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 creature	amod
5	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Leave	obj
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 Leave	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 other	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Leave	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 done	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 done	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 done	nsubj:pass
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 done	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 done	advmod
17	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	ccomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 done	obj
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 harm	det
20	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 done	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the poor creature	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the other			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not do in a quote	present · perfect · passive		creature		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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