Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 20

‘Turn back, turn back, young maiden fair, Linger not in this murderers’ lair.’

Who acts: you · What happens: turn back · To what, where: young maiden fair, lair

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Turn	punct
2	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 Turn	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 turn	punct
5	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Turn	conj
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 turn	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fair	punct
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fair	amod
9	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fair	amod
10	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Turn	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Linger	punct
12	Linger	Linger	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Turn	parataxis
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 lair	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 lair	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 murderers	det
16	murderers	murderer	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lair	nmod:poss
17	’	's	PART	_	16 murderers	case
18	lair	lair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Turn	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Turn	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	imperative	you not said here	young maiden fair		this murderers's lair			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	turn back	infinitive	you not said here						vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: 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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