Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 54
Speak low, that you may not awaken anybody.’
Who acts: you · What happens: speak, not awaken · To what, where: anybody · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. 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 | Speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Speak | xcomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 awaken | punct |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 awaken | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 awaken | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 awaken | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 awaken | advmod |
| 8 | awaken | awaken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Speak | conj |
| 9 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 awaken | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Speak | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | low property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not awaken | may | you | anybody | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location anybody=Theme |
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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