Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 23

Answer," said the boy, "or make haste off; you have no business here to-night."

Who acts: Answer, you · What happens: say, make off, have · To what, where: haste, business · 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 (Answer, you), 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	Answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Answer	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Answer	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 make	cc
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	conj
11	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obj
12	off	off	ADP	_	10 make	compound:prt
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 business	det
17	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 have	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 night	case
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 to	punct
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 here	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Answer			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make off	infinitive	Answer not said here	haste		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product
3	have	present	you	no business	here	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient

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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