Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 79
‘Pray don’t,’ answered he, ‘it will discover us.’
Who acts: Pray, door · What happens: not do, answer, discover · To what, where: Pray, us
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 (Pray, door), 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 | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 2 | Pray | Pray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 do | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | parataxis |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 discover | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 discover | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 discover | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 discover | aux |
| 13 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | conj |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 discover | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | infinitive | Pray | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Pray | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | discover | future | door | us | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Topic |
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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