Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 80

Hold your tongue," said his wife; "so many imprudent people have already lost their lives, it were a shame and sin to such beautiful eyes that they should not see the light again."

Who acts: you, wife, many imprudent people, people · What happens: hold, say, lose, be, not see · To what, where: tongue, lives, shame, such beautiful eyes · 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, wife, many imprudent people, people), 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	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tongue	nmod:poss
3	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hold	parataxis
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 lost	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 lost	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 many	advmod
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 people	amod
13	imprudent	imprudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 people	amod
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lost	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 lost	aux
16	already	already	ADV	_	17 lost	advmod
17	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Hold	parataxis
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 lives	nmod:poss
19	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lost	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 shame	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 shame	expl
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 shame	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 shame	det
24	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lost	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sin	cc
26	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shame	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 eyes	case
28	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 eyes	amod
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 eyes	amod
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shame	nmod
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 see	obj
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 see	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 see	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 see	advmod
35	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 eyes	acl:relcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 light	det
37	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 see	obj
38	again	again	ADV	_	35 see	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	your tongue			tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	boy's wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	lose	present · perfect	many imprudent people	people's lives			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality
4	is a	past		a shame and sin		to such beautiful eyes	tree rules
5	not see	should	people	such beautiful eyes	again		tree rules

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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