Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 149
"Not so quick," answered the youth; "if I die I must be brought to it first."
Who acts: youth · What happens: answer, die, bring · To what, where: youth, wretch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 quick | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 quick | advmod |
| 4 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answered | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 youth | det |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 die | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 die | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 die | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 die | nsubj |
| 14 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 brought | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 brought | aux:pass |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 die | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | obl |
| 21 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 brought | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 die | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the youth | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | die a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the youth = youth | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | must · passive | the youth = youth | wretch | first property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
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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