Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 105

‘Just keep your noise to yourself,’ said the old woman, ‘it won’t help you at all.’

Who acts: old woman, noise, your · What happens: keep, say, not help, noise · To what, where: noise, yourself, you, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, noise, your), 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	_	3 keep	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	3 keep	advmod
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 noise	nmod:poss
5	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 yourself	case
7	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 keep	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 help	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 help	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 help	nsubj
17	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 help	aux
18	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 help	advmod
19	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 help	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 all	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 help	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 help	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	keep	infinitive		your noise	yourself		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the old woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not help	future	noise		you	all	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
4	noise		your				nom noise «event 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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