Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 154

If you are stronger than I, I will let you go; come, let us try"; and he led him away through a dark passage to a smith's forge.

Who acts: you, I, us, man · What happens: be, let, go, come, try, lead away · To what, where: you, us, youth, dark passage

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 (you, I, us, man), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 stronger	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 stronger	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stronger	cop
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 I	case
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 stronger	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 let	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 let	aux
10	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stronger	parataxis
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 let	conj
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 try	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 led	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 led	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 led	nsubj
23	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stronger	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 led	obj
25	away	away	ADV	_	23 led	advmod
26	through	through	ADP	_	29 passage	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 passage	det
28	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 passage	amod
29	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 led	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	34 forge	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 smith	det
32	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 forge	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 smith	case
34	forge	forge	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 passage	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stronger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	you			than I; strong property	tree rules
2	let	future	I	you			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	you not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	infinitive	I not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	let	infinitive	I not said here	us			tree rules
6	try	infinitive	us not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	lead away in a quote	past	man	youth	a dark passage to a smith's forge	away property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme through passage=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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