Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 18

If I get Hans, and we have a child, and he grows big, and has to draw beer here, the pick-axe will perhaps fall on his head, and kill him.’

Who acts: I, we, child, pick axe · What happens: get, have, grow, draw, fall, kill · To what, where: Hans, child, beer, head

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 (I, we, child, pick axe), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 get	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 grows	advcl
4	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 get	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 have	cc
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 get	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 get	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 grows	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 grows	nsubj
14	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grows	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 has	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 has	cc
18	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 grows	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 draw	mark
20	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 has	xcomp
21	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 draw	obj
22	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 draw	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fall	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 axe	det
25	pick	pick	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 axe	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 pick	punct
27	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fall	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 fall	aux
29	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	30 fall	advmod
30	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 has	parataxis
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 head	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fall	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 kill	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 kill	cc
36	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 fall	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 kill	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 grows	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 grows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get a condition, not said to happen	present	I	Hans			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer han=Stimulus
2	have	present	we	a child			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	grow	present	child			big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	present	child not said here				tree rules
5	draw	to-infinitive	child not said here	beer	here		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Theme
6	fall	future	the pick axe		child's head	perhaps property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location
7	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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