Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 76
‘Well, then, make haste and throw them down, if you will.’
Who acts: you · What happens: make, throw down · To what, where: haste, nuts
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), 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 | _ | 6 make | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 make | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 make | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 throw | cc |
| 9 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 throw | obj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 throw | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 will | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 will | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 will | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 throw | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | haste | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | |||
| 2 | throw down | infinitive | you not said here | nuts = nut | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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