Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 11
Be quiet, Grethel," said he; "do not cry--I will soon help you."
Who acts: you, Grethel, I · What happens: be, say, not cry, help · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Grethel, 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 | 13 cry | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 4 | Grethel | Grethel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Grethel | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Grethel | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 quiet | parataxis |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 cry | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 cry | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 cry | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 cry | advmod |
| 13 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 help | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 help | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 help | aux |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 help | advmod |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cry | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 help | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cry | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | you not said here | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Grethel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not cry speech: express | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | help | future | I | you | soon property | 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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