Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 17

You must be very careful, however, to make my bed in the right way, for I wish you always to shake it thoroughly, so that the feathers fly about; then they say, down there in the world, that it is snowing; for I am Mother Holle.’

Who acts: You, I, feathers, it · What happens: be, make, wish, shake, fly, say · To what, where: bed, right way, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, feathers, it), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 careful	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 careful	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 careful	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 careful	advmod
5	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	10 make	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 careful	conj
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bed	nmod:poss
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 way	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wish	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 wish	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 wish	nsubj
20	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 make	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 wish	iobj
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 shake	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 shake	mark
24	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wish	xcomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 shake	obj
26	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	24 shake	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fly	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 fly	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 feathers	det
31	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 fly	nsubj
32	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 shake	conj
33	about	about	ADV	_	32 fly	advmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 say	punct
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 say	advmod
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 say	nsubj
37	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 careful	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 there	punct
39	down	down	ADV	_	40 there	advmod
40	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 say	ccomp
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 world	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 world	det
43	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 there	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 snowing	punct
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 snowing	mark
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 snowing	nsubj
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 snowing	aux
48	snowing	snow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 say	conj
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 Mother	punct
50	for	for	ADP	_	53 Mother	case
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 Mother	nsubj
52	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 Mother	cop
53	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 careful	parataxis
54	Holle	Holle	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Mother	flat
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	53 Mother	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 careful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	You					careful property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	You not said here	my bed		the right way		however property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bed=Product
3	wish	present	I		you				tree rules
4	shake not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	bed				always, thoroughly property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	fly	present	the feathers					about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	present	feathers = feather				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	snow	present · progressive	it						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
8	is	present	I					for Mother	tree rules

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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