Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 16
So the Sister said, "Oh, my Brother do not drink, or you will be changed into a fawn, and run away from me!"
Who acts: Sister, Brother · What happens: say, not drink, change, run away · To what, where: you, fawn · 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, Brother), 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 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sister | det |
| 3 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drink | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 drink | punct |
| 7 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 13 drink | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Oh | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Brother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 drink | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 drink | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 drink | advmod |
| 13 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 changed | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 changed | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 changed | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 changed | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 changed | aux:pass |
| 19 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 fawn | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fawn | det |
| 22 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 changed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 run | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 run | cc |
| 25 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 run | advmod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 run | obl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 run | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the Sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not drink in a quote | infinitive · do-support | my Brother | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | change in a quote | future · passive | you | into a fawn result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into fawn=Result | ||||
| 4 | run away in a quote | present | from the Sister = sister; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from i=Trajectory |
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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