Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 19

So he went out and took the maiden aside, and said: ‘Tonight when the boy is asleep, go to his bed and plunge this knife into his heart, and bring me his heart and tongue, and if you do not do it, you shall lose your life.’

Who acts: cook, boy, you · What happens: go out, take, say, be, go, plunge · To what, where: maiden, bed, knife, heart, me, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cook, boy, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 took	cc
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 maiden	det
8	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 took	obj
9	aside	aside	ADV	_	6 took	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Tonight	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Tonight	punct
15	Tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl:unmarked
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 asleep	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 asleep	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 asleep	cop
20	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 go	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asleep	punct
22	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 bed	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 bed	nmod:poss
25	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 plunge	cc
27	plunge	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 go	conj
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 knife	det
29	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 plunge	obj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 heart	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 heart	nmod:poss
32	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 plunge	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bring	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bring	cc
35	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 plunge	advcl
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 bring	obj
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 heart	nmod:poss
38	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bring	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 tongue	cc
40	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 heart	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 lose	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 lose	cc
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	47 do	mark
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 do	nsubj
45	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 do	aux
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 do	advmod
47	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 lose	advcl
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 do	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 do	punct
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 lose	nsubj
51	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 lose	aux
52	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	parataxis
53	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 life	nmod:poss
54	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 lose	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	52 lose	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	52 lose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	cook					out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	cook not said here	the maiden				aside property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	cook not said here				tonight		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	present	the boy					asleep property	tree rules
5	go	infinitive				cook's bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
6	plunge	present		this knife		cook's heart			vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knife=Theme
7	bring	infinitive		cook's heart and tongue	me				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination heart=Theme
8	not do a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you	knife					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
9	lose	shall	you	your life					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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