Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 38
They will only bring misfortune upon you."
Who acts: tricks · What happens: bring · To what, where: misfortune
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 (tricks), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 bring | advmod |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | future | tricks = trick | misfortune | upon you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent misfortune=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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