Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 34

‘Ah, dear Hans,’ said Elsie, ‘if we marry each other and have a child, and he is big, and we perhaps send him here to draw something to drink, then the pick-axe which has been left up there might dash his brains out if it were to fall down, so have we not reason to weep?’

Who acts: dear Hans, we, child, pick axe, axe · What happens: say, marry, have, be, send, draw · To what, where: each, child, something, pick axe, brains, we · 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 (dear Hans, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 Hans	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Hans	amod
5	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Hans	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 Hans	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 marry	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 marry	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 marry	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 marry	nsubj
14	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
15	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	14 marry	obj
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 each	fixed
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 have	cc
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 marry	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 child	det
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 big	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 big	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 big	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 big	cop
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 marry	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 send	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 send	cc
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 send	nsubj
29	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	30 send	advmod
30	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 send	obj
32	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 send	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 draw	mark
34	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 send	advcl
35	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 draw	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 drink	mark
37	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 something	acl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 dash	punct
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 dash	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	51 dash	nsubj
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 left	nsubj:pass
45	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 left	aux
46	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 left	aux:pass
47	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 axe	acl:relcl
48	up	up	ADP	_	47 left	compound:prt
49	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 left	advmod
50	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 dash	aux
51	dash	dash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 brains	nmod:poss
53	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 dash	obj
54	out	out	ADV	_	51 dash	advmod
55	if	if	SCONJ	_	59 fall	mark
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 fall	nsubj
57	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 fall	aux
58	to	to	PART	_	59 fall	mark
59	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 dash	advcl
60	down	down	ADP	_	59 fall	compound:prt
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 have	punct
62	so	so	ADV	_	63 have	advmod
63	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
64	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	63 have	obj
65	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	66 reason	advmod
66	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 have	obj
67	to	to	PART	_	68 weep	mark
68	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	66 reason	acl
69	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
70	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	dear Hans					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	marry a condition, not said to happen	present	we	each				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient
3	have	present	we not said here	a child				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4	is	present	child				big property	tree rules
5	send	present	we	child	here		perhaps property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	draw	to-infinitive	we not said here	something				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
7	drink	to-infinitive	we not said here	something not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	leave up	present · perfect · passive		the pick axe	there			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
9	dash out	might	the pick axe	child's brains		then	out property	vn hit-18.1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument brain=Patient
10	fall down a condition, not said to happen	past	axe					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	have	present	dear Hans not said here	we				tree rules
12	weep	to-infinitive	dear Hans not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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