Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 24
Pay attention, and do not forget how to use your legs.’
Who acts: you · What happens: pay, not forget, use · To what, where: attention, legs
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 (you), 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 | Pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pay | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 forget | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 forget | cc |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 forget | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 forget | advmod |
| 7 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pay | conj |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 use | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 use | mark |
| 10 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 forget | xcomp |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 legs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 use | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pay | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | imperative | you not said here | attention | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | ||||
| 2 | not forget | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | use | to-infinitive | you not said here | your legs | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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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