Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 21
The cook once more said: ‘If you do not do it, it shall cost you your own life.’
Who acts: cook, you, blood · What happens: say, not do, cost · To what, where: blood, own life, you · 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, you, blood), 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 | 2 cook | det |
| 2 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 said | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 said | advmod |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 cost | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 cost | punct |
| 8 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 do | advmod |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 cost | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 do | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cost | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 cost | aux |
| 17 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 cost | iobj |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 life | amod |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cost | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 cost | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 cost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the cook | once property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not do a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | blood | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | cost | shall | blood | your own life | you | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme you=Beneficiary life=Value |
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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