Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 27
‘That shall not help you,’ cried she, ‘even if you have got a long way off, you shall still not escape me.’
Who acts: That, you · What happens: not help, cry, get, not escape · To what, where: you, woman, me
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 (That, 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 | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 help | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 help | advmod |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 help | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 got | advmod |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 got | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | aux |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 way | amod |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 off | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | off | off | ADV | _ | 17 got | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 escape | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 escape | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 escape | aux |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 escape | advmod |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 escape | advmod |
| 27 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 escape | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 escape | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 escape | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | shall | That | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | you | off property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | not escape | shall | you | me | still | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Initial_Location |
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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