Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 11

Then Clever Elsie began to weep and said: ‘If I get Hans, and we have a child, and he grows big, and we send him into the cellar here to draw beer, then the pick-axe will fall on his head and kill him.’

Who acts: Clever, I, we, child, pick axe · What happens: begin, weep, say, get, have, grow · To what, where: Hans, child, cellar, beer, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clever, I, we, child), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	Clever	Clever	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
3	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Clever	flat
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 weep	mark
6	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
11	If	if	SCONJ	_	13 get	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 get	nsubj
13	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
14	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 get	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 have	cc
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 get	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 child	det
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 grows	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 grows	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 grows	nsubj
24	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grows	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 send	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 send	cc
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 send	nsubj
29	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 send	obj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 cellar	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cellar	det
33	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 send	obl
34	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 send	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 draw	mark
36	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 send	advcl
37	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 draw	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 fall	punct
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	45 fall	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 axe	det
41	pick	pick	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 axe	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 pick	punct
43	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 fall	nsubj
44	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 fall	aux
45	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	parataxis
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 head	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 head	nmod:poss
48	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 fall	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 kill	cc
50	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 fall	conj
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 kill	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct
53	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Clever			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	weep	to-infinitive	Clever not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Clever not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	get a condition, not said to happen	present	I	Hans				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer han=Stimulus
5	have	present	we	a child				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
6	grow	present	child				big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	send	present	we	child	the cellar; here			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	draw	to-infinitive	we not said here	beer				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Theme
9	fall	future	the pick axe		child's head	then		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location
10	kill	infinitive	the pick axe not said here	child				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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