Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 46
He who says A must say B, likewise, and as he had yielded the first time, he had to do so a second time also.
Who acts: other · What happens: say, yield, have, do · To what, where: B · 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 (other), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 says | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 say | det |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | B | B | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 say | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 likewise | punct |
| 9 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 6 say | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 had | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 yielded | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 yielded | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 yielded | aux |
| 15 | yielded | yield | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 had | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 yielded | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 yielded | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 had | xcomp |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 do | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 time | det |
| 26 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 time | amod |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | also | also | ADV | _ | 23 do | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | must | B | likewise property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent b=Topic | ||||
| 3 | yield | past · perfect | other | time | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have | past | other | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | other not said here | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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