Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 45
Then the enchantress allowed her anger to be softened, and said to him: ‘If the case be as you say, I will allow you to take away with you as much rampion as you will, only I make one condition, you must give me the child which your wife will bring into the world; it shall be well treated, and I will care for it like a mother.’
Who acts: enchantress, you, I, wife · What happens: allow, soften, say, be, take away, make · To what, where: anger, husband, you, much rampion, one condition, child · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (enchantress, you, I, wife), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 allowed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 enchantress | det |
| 3 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 allowed | nsubj |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 anger | nmod:poss |
| 6 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 allowed | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 softened | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 softened | aux:pass |
| 9 | softened | soften | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 allowed | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 allow | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 allow | punct |
| 17 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 case | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 case | det |
| 19 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 allow | advcl |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 allow | cop |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 say | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 say | nsubj |
| 23 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 allow | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 say | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 allow | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 allow | aux |
| 27 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | parataxis |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 allow | iobj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 take | mark |
| 30 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 allow | xcomp |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 take | advmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 you | case |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 take | obl |
| 34 | as | as | ADV | _ | 35 much | advmod |
| 35 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 rampion | amod |
| 36 | rampion | rampion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 take | obj |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 will | mark |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 will | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 take | advcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 make | punct |
| 41 | only | only | ADV | _ | 43 make | advmod |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 make | nsubj |
| 43 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 allow | conj |
| 44 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 condition | nummod |
| 45 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 make | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 give | punct |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 49 give | nsubj |
| 48 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 give | aux |
| 49 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 allow | parataxis |
| 50 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 give | iobj |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 child | det |
| 52 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 give | obj |
| 53 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 57 bring | obj |
| 54 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 wife | nmod:poss |
| 55 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 bring | nsubj |
| 56 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 57 bring | aux |
| 57 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 child | acl:relcl |
| 58 | into | into | ADP | _ | 60 world | case |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 world | det |
| 60 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 bring | obl |
| 61 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 66 treated | punct |
| 62 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 66 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 63 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 66 treated | aux |
| 64 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 66 treated | aux:pass |
| 65 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 66 treated | advmod |
| 66 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 allowed | parataxis |
| 67 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 71 care | punct |
| 68 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 71 care | cc |
| 69 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 71 care | nsubj |
| 70 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 71 care | aux |
| 71 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 66 treated | conj |
| 72 | for | for | ADP | _ | 73 it | case |
| 73 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 71 care | obl |
| 74 | like | like | ADP | _ | 76 mother | case |
| 75 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 76 mother | det |
| 76 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 71 care | obl |
| 77 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 allowed | punct |
| 78 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past | the enchantress | enchantress's anger | then | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anger=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | soften | to-infinitive · passive | the enchantress not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the enchantress not said here | husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | future · infinitive | I | you | allow property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | take away not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | much rampion | with you; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rampion=Theme | |||
| 7 | make | present | I | one condition | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Product | ||||
| 8 | give | must | you | the child | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient child=Theme | |||
| 9 | bring | future | your wife | the child | the world | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme into world=Destination | |||
| 10 | treat | shall · passive | rampion | well property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 11 | care | future | I | for rampion; like a mother | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | ||||
| 12 | anger | enchantress | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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