Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 29
If I did not take pity on you and save you, you would be lost.’
Who acts: I · What happens: not take, save, lose · To what, where: pity, 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 (I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 take | advmod |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 lost | advcl |
| 6 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 take | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 save | cc |
| 10 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 save | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 lost | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 lost | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 lost | aux:pass |
| 16 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 lost | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | I | pity | on you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on you=Destination | |||
| 2 | save | infinitive | I not said here | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | would · passive | you | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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