Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Willow-wren and the Bear, sentence 25

When I lift my tail up quite high, all is going well, and you must charge; but if I let it hang down, run away as fast as you can.’

Who acts: I, you, tail · What happens: lift, go, charge, let, hang down, run away · To what, where: tail

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 (I, you, tail), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 lift	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 lift	nsubj
3	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tail	nmod:poss
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lift	obj
6	up	up	ADV	_	3 lift	advmod
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 high	advmod
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 up	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 going	advmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lift	advcl
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 going	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 charge	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 charge	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 charge	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 charge	aux
18	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lift	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 let	cc
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 let	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 let	nsubj
23	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lift	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 let	obj
25	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 hang	compound:prt
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 run	punct
28	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 hang	conj
29	away	away	ADV	_	28 run	advmod
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 fast	advmod
31	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 run	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 can	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 can	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 fast	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lift	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 lift	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lift	present	I	my tail		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
2	go	present · progressive	I not said here		well property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	charge	must	you			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	let a condition, not said to happen	past	I	tail		tree rules
5	hang down	infinitive	tail not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	run away	infinitive	tail not said here		away, fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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