Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 47

The wise woman said: ‘There is some enchantment behind it, listen very early some morning if anything is moving in the room, and if you see anything, no matter what it is, throw a white cloth over it, and then the magic will be stopped.’

Who acts: wise woman, enchantment, anything, you · What happens: say, be, listen, move, see, throw · To what, where: room, anything, white cloth, advice, magic · 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 (wise woman, enchantment, anything, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 is	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 is	punct
7	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 is	expl
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 listen	advcl
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 enchantment	det
10	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 is	nsubj
11	behind	behind	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 enchantment	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 is	punct
14	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 early	advmod
16	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 listen	advmod
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 morning	det
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 listen	obl:unmarked
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 moving	mark
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 moving	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 moving	aux
22	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 listen	advcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 room	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 room	det
25	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 moving	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 see	cc
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 see	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 see	nsubj
30	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
31	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 see	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 matter	punct
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 matter	det
34	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 anything	conj
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 is	obj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 is	nsubj
37	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 anything	acl:relcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 throw	punct
39	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 see	conj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 cloth	det
41	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 cloth	amod
42	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 throw	obj
43	over	over	ADP	_	44 it	case
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 throw	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 stopped	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 stopped	cc
47	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	52 stopped	advmod
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 magic	det
49	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 stopped	nsubj:pass
50	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 stopped	aux
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 stopped	aux:pass
52	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	ccomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	52 stopped	punct
54	’	'	PUNCT	_	52 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the wise woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	present	some enchantment behind advice		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	listen	infinitive				morning	early property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	move a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	anything		the room			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in room=Trajectory
5	see a condition, not said to happen	present	you	anything				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
6	be	present	enchantment					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
7	throw	infinitive	you not said here	a white cloth	advice			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme over it=Destination
8	stop	future · passive		the magic		then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=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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