Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 31
I shall put them into a box and bury them in the garden; but take care that you never go near or meddle with them.’
Who acts: I, care · What happens: put, bury, take, not go, meddle · To what, where: buttons, box, garden, care
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, care), 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 | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 box | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 box | det |
| 7 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bury | cc |
| 9 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bury | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 garden | det |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bury | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 take | cc |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | conj |
| 17 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 go | nsubj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 go | nsubj |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 go | advmod |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 care | acl:relcl |
| 22 | near | near | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 meddle | cc |
| 24 | meddle | meddle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 take | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 meddle | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | shall | I | buttons = button | a box | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | |||
| 2 | bury | infinitive | I not said here | buttons = button | the garden | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in garden=Destination | |||
| 3 | take | infinitive | I not said here | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not go | present | care | near property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | meddle | infinitive | I not said here | with buttons = button | 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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