Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 31

‘Keep as still as a mouse,’ she said; ‘do not move or speak, or it will be all over with you.

Who acts: woman, mouse · What happens: keep, say, not move, speak, be · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woman, mouse), 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 Keep	punct
2	Keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 still	advmod
4	still	still	ADV	_	2 Keep	advmod
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 mouse	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mouse	det
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Keep	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Keep	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Keep	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 move	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 move	punct
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 move	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 move	advmod
16	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 speak	cc
18	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 move	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 over	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 over	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 over	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 over	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 over	cop
24	all	all	ADV	_	25 over	advmod
25	over	over	ADV	_	11 said	ccomp
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 over	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	keep	infinitive		still	as a mouse	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not move	infinitive · do-support				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	speak speech: other	infinitive				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	future	mouse		with you; all, over property	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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