Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 91
‘Will you be easy?’ said the wolf; ‘you’ll awaken everybody in the house if you make such a clatter.’
Who acts: you, wolf · What happens: be, say, awaken, make · To what, where: everybody, house, clatter · 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, wolf), 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 | _ | 5 easy | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 easy | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 easy | cop |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wolf | det |
| 10 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 awaken | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 awaken | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 awaken | nsubj |
| 14 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 awaken | aux |
| 15 | awaken | awaken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 easy | conj |
| 16 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 awaken | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 awaken | obl |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 make | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 make | nsubj |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 awaken | advcl |
| 23 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 clatter | det:predet |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 clatter | det |
| 25 | clatter | clatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | you | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the wolf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | awaken | future | you | everybody | the house | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location everybody=Theme | |||
| 4 | make a condition, not said to happen | present | you | such clatter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clatter=Product |
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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