Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 63

I asked her if my betrothed lived here, and she answered, “Ah, you poor child, you are come to a murderers’ den; your betrothed does indeed live here, but he will kill you without mercy and afterwards cook and eat you.”’

Who acts: I, woman, child · What happens: ask, betroth, live, answer, child, come · To what, where: woman · 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 (I, woman, child), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	iobj
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 lived	mark
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lived	nmod:poss
6	betrothed	betroth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lived	nsubj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	advcl
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 lived	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 answered	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 answered	nsubj
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 child	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 child	punct
15	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	19 child	discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Ah	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 child	nsubj
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 child	amod
19	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 answered	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux:pass
23	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 asked	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	28 den	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 murderers	det
26	murderers	murderer	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 den	nmod:poss
27	’	's	PART	_	26 murderers	case
28	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 live	punct
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 live	nmod:poss
31	betrothed	betroth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 live	nsubj
32	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 live	aux
33	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	34 live	advmod
34	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	ccomp
35	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 live	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 kill	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 kill	cc
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 kill	nsubj
39	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 kill	aux
40	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 live	conj
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 kill	obj
42	without	without	ADP	_	43 mercy	case
43	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 kill	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 cook	cc
45	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	46 cook	advmod
46	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 live	conj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 eat	cc
48	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 cook	conj
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 eat	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	46 cook	punct
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	46 cook	punct
52	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 live	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	I		woman			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	betroth	participle						vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	live a condition, not said to happen	past				here		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	answer speech: assert	past	woman					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	child in a quote		woman					tree rules
6	come in a quote	present · passive		woman			to a murderers's den	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
7	betroth in a quote	participle						vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
8	live in a quote	present · do-support				here	indeed property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	kill in a quote	future	child	woman			without mercy	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
10	cook in a quote	present					afterwards property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
11	eat in a quote	present		woman				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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