Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 28

As soon as they have you in their power they will kill you without mercy, and cook and eat you, for they are eaters of men.

Who acts: murderers · What happens: have, kill, cook, eat, be · To what, where: power, you

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 (murderers), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 kill	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 have	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 soon	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 power	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 power	nmod:poss
9	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kill	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 kill	aux
12	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 kill	obj
14	without	without	ADP	_	15 mercy	case
15	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kill	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cook	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cook	cc
18	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 kill	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 eat	cc
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 cook	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 eat	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 eaters	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 eaters	case
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 eaters	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 eaters	cop
26	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 eat	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 men	case
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 eaters	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	murderers = murderer		murderers's power		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	kill	future	murderers = murderer	you		without mercy; soon property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	cook	infinitive	murderers = murderer not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	eat	infinitive	murderers = murderer not said here	you			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
5	is	present	murderers = murderer			for eaters; of men	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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