Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 4
Your stepsister has long deserved death; tonight when she is asleep I will come and cut her head off.
Who acts: woman, I · What happens: deserve, be, come, cut off · To what, where: stepsister, head
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 (woman, 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 stepsister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | stepsister | stepsister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deserved | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 deserved | aux |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 deserved | advmod |
| 5 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deserved | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 deserved | punct |
| 8 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deserved | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 asleep | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asleep | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 asleep | cop |
| 12 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 deserved | parataxis |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 come | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asleep | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cut | cc |
| 17 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 come | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cut | obj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 cut | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 deserved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deserve | present · perfect · passive | Your stepsister | tonight | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | woman | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | future | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cut off | infinitive | I not said here | woman's head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
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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