Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 26

You think yourself a promised bride, and that your marriage will soon take place, but it is with death that you will keep your marriage feast.

Who acts: You, marriage, your · What happens: think, promise, take, be, keep, marry · To what, where: yourself, place, marriage feast

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, marriage, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 think	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bride	det
5	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bride	amod
6	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 think	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 take	cc
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 take	mark
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 marriage	nmod:poss
11	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 take	aux
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 take	advmod
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 think	conj
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 death	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 death	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 death	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 death	cop
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 death	case
21	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 think	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 keep	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 keep	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 keep	aux
25	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 death	acl
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 feast	nmod:poss
27	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 feast	compound
28	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 keep	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	You	yourself	a promised bride obl:unmarked	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot yourself=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	participle				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	take	future	your marriage	place	soon property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
4	is	present	marriage		with death	tree rules
5	keep	future	you	your marriage feast		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme
6	marry		your			nom marriage «state transitive»: 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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