Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 36

‘Go into the garden and dig where I tell you, and you will find the yellow buttons: I dare not go myself.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: go, dig, tell, find, not dare, not go · To what, where: garden, you, yellow buttons, myself · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, I), 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 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 garden	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 garden	det
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Go	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dig	cc
7	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	conj
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 tell	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nsubj
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dig	ccomp
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 find	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 find	cc
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 find	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 find	aux
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Go	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 buttons	det
18	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 buttons	amod
19	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 find	obj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 dare	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 dare	nsubj
22	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	parataxis
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 dare	advmod
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 dare	xcomp
25	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 go	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			the garden	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location
2	dig	infinitive	you not said here				tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	find	future	you	the yellow buttons			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=Topic
5	not dare	present	I				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not go	infinitive	I not said here	myself			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location myself=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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