Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 53
Be quiet, now," replied the old woman, "and make yourself contented: when the time comes I will help and assist you."
Who acts: yourself, time, I · What happens: be, reply, make, content, come, help · To what, where: old woman, yourself, you
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 (yourself, time, I), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 quiet | cop |
| 2 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 replied | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 now | punct |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 quiet | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 woman | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 woman | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 make | cc |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | conj |
| 15 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 make | xcomp |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 comes | punct |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 comes | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 comes | nsubj |
| 21 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | conj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 help | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 help | aux |
| 24 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 comes | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 assist | cc |
| 26 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 help | conj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 assist | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 help | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | now | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | yourself | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | content | participle | yourself not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | come | present | the time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | help | future | I | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | assist | infinitive | I not said here | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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