Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 13
The Sister ran up crying, "Brother, do not, pray do not drink, or you will become a wolf and eat me up!"
Who acts: Sister, you · What happens: run up, cry, not do, pray, not drink, become · To what, where: wolf, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sister | det |
| 2 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 ran | compound:prt |
| 5 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ran | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Brother | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Brother | punct |
| 8 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crying | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 do | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pray | punct |
| 13 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | conj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 drink | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 drink | advmod |
| 16 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 pray | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 become | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 become | cc |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 become | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 become | aux |
| 21 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ran | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wolf | det |
| 23 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 become | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 eat | cc |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 become | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 eat | obj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 eat | compound:prt |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 eat | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past | the Sister | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | the Sister not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not do in a quote | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | pray in a quote | infinitive | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | not drink in a quote | infinitive · do-support | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | become in a quote | future | you | a wolf | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | eat up in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the Sister = sister | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
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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