Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 10

So the Sister exclaimed, "I pray you, Brother, drink not, or you will become a tiger, and tear me to pieces!"

Who acts: Sister, you · What happens: exclaim, pray, not drink, become, tear · To what, where: you, tiger, Sister · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sister, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 exclaimed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sister	det
3	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 exclaimed	nsubj
4	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pray	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 pray	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 pray	nsubj
8	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 exclaimed	ccomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 pray	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Brother	punct
11	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 pray	vocative
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drink	punct
13	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 pray	conj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 drink	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 become	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 become	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 become	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 become	aux
19	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 drink	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tiger	det
21	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 become	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tear	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tear	cc
24	tear	tear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 pray	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 tear	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 pieces	case
27	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tear	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 exclaimed	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	the Sister			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pray in a quote	present	the Sister = sister	you	Brother vocative	tree rules
3	not drink in a quote	present	the Sister = sister not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	become in a quote	future	you	a tiger		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	tear in a quote	infinitive	the Sister = sister not said here	the Sister = sister	to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient to piece=Result

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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