Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 12

‘But,’ said Roland, ‘I counsel you first to take away her magic wand, or we cannot escape if she pursues us.’

Who acts: Roland, I, we, daylight · What happens: say, counsel, take away, not escape, pursue · To what, where: you, magic wand, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roland, I, we, daylight), 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 said	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 But	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 counsel	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 counsel	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 counsel	nsubj
10	counsel	counsel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 counsel	obj
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 counsel	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 take	mark
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 counsel	advcl
15	away	away	ADP	_	14 take	compound:prt
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wand	nmod:poss
17	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wand	amod
18	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 escape	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 escape	cc
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 escape	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 escape	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 escape	advmod
24	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 take	conj
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 pursues	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pursues	nsubj
27	pursues	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 escape	advcl
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 pursues	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Roland				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	counsel speech: other	present	I		you	first property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	take away	to-infinitive	I not said here	daylight's magic wand			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Theme
4	not escape	can	we				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pursue a condition, not said to happen	present	daylight	us			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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