Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 15
‘Yes; but you must get up behind, or my horses will not be able to draw you.’
Who acts: you, horses · What happens: get up, not be, draw · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, horses), 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 | _ | 7 get | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 get | discourse |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 get | cc |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 get | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | aux |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 get | compound:prt |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 7 get | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 able | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 able | cc |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 horses | nmod:poss |
| 13 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 able | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 able | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 able | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 able | cop |
| 17 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 get | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 draw | mark |
| 19 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 able | xcomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 draw | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | must | you | behind property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not is | future | my horses | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | draw | to-infinitive | my horses not said here | you | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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