Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 20

But the youngest said, ‘I don’t know how it is, while you are so happy I feel very uneasy; I am sure some mischance will befall us.’

Who acts: I, dancing, you, mischance · What happens: say, not know, be, feel, befall · To what, where: us · 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 (I, dancing, you, mischance), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 youngest	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youngest	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 youngest	acl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 know	aux
9	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 know	advmod
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 youngest	parataxis
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 know	ccomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 how	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 how	cop
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 happy	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 happy	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 happy	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 happy	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 happy	advmod
19	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 know	conj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 feel	nsubj
21	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 happy	ccomp
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 uneasy	advmod
23	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 feel	xcomp
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 sure	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 sure	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 sure	cop
27	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 know	conj
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 mischance	det
29	mischance	mischance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 befall	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 befall	aux
31	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 sure	ccomp
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 befall	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 youngest	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 youngest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	participle				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not know	present · do-support	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	dancing		how property	tree rules
4	is	present	you		happy property	tree rules
5	feel	present	I		uneasy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	is	present	I		sure property	tree rules
7	befall	future	some mischance	us		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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