Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 26

Speak, if you are an honest fellow, or else I will throw you downstairs."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: speak, be, throw · To what, where: honest fellow, you · 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 (you, 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	Speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fellow	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 fellow	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 fellow	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fellow	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fellow	det
7	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fellow	amod
8	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Speak	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 throw	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 throw	cc
11	else	else	ADV	_	14 throw	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 throw	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 throw	aux
14	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fellow	conj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 throw	obj
16	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	14 throw	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Speak	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a honest fellow		tree rules
3	throw	future	I	you	downstairs, else property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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