Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 27
Look, do you see that large cauldron of water which I am obliged to keep on the fire!
Who acts: you · What happens: look, see, oblige, keep · To what, where: large cauldron, fire
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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Look | conj |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 cauldron | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cauldron | amod |
| 8 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cauldron | nmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 obliged | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 obliged | aux:pass |
| 14 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cauldron | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 obliged | advcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 fire | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fire | det |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keep | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | present · do-support | you | that large cauldron of water | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cauldron=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | oblige | present · passive | that large cauldron of water | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | the fire | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on fire=Location |
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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