Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 17
You shall suffer for it--we will punish you by a bloody war.’
Who acts: You, we · What happens: suffer, punish · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Willow-wren and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, we), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 suffer | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 suffer | aux |
| 3 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 suffer | obl |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 punish | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 punish | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 punish | aux |
| 9 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 suffer | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 punish | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 war | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 war | det |
| 13 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 war | amod |
| 14 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 punish | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suffer | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 suffer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | shall | You | for Growler | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | punish | future | we | you | by a bloody war | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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