Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 5
Only be careful that you are at the far side of the bed, and push her well to the front.’
Who acts: you · What happens: be, push · To what, where: far side, woman, front
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 (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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 careful | advmod |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 careful | cop |
| 3 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 side | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 side | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 side | cop |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 side | det |
| 9 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 side | amod |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 careful | advcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bed | det |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 side | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 push | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 push | cc |
| 16 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 careful | parataxis |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 push | obj |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 push | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 front | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 front | det |
| 21 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 push | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 careful | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | the far side | of the bed | tree rules | |||
| 3 | push | infinitive | woman | the front | well property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme to front=Trajectory |
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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