Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 12

‘Well,’ said the old dame, ‘that is no very hard task: only take care not to drink any of the wine which one of the princesses will bring to you in the evening; and as soon as she leaves you pretend to be fast asleep.’

Who acts: old dame, any, woman, you · What happens: say, be, take, not drink, bring, leave · To what, where: old dame, hard task, care, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old dame, any, woman, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dame	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dame	amod
8	dame	dame	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ‘	punct
10	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dame	conj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 task	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 task	cop
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 task	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 hard	advmod
15	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 task	amod
16	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dame	acl:relcl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 take	advmod
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
20	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 drink	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 drink	mark
23	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 take	conj
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 bring	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 wine	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wine	det
27	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 any	nmod
28	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wine	appos
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 princesses	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 princesses	det
32	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 one	nmod
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 bring	aux
34	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 drink	ccomp
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 you	case
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 bring	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 evening	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 evening	det
39	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bring	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 leaves	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 leaves	cc
42	as	as	ADV	_	43 soon	advmod
43	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	46 leaves	advmod
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 leaves	mark
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 leaves	nsubj
46	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 pretend	nsubj
48	pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 leaves	parataxis
49	to	to	PART	_	52 asleep	mark
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 asleep	cop
51	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	52 asleep	advmod
52	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 pretend	advcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	46 leaves	punct
54	’	'	PUNCT	_	46 leaves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the old dame and ‘				tree rules
2	is a	present	the old dame and ‘	no hard task				tree rules
3	take	infinitive		care				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
4	not drink	to-infinitive						tree rules
5	bring	future	any		you	evening		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to you=Destination
6	leave	present	woman				soon property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	pretend	present	you					tree rules
8	is	to-infinitive	you not said here				asleep, fast property	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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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