Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 36

‘Go to him again,’ said her mother, ‘and if he does not answer, give him a box on the ear.’

Who acts: Marleen · What happens: go, say, not answer, give · To what, where: Marleen, mother, box, ear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marleen), 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	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Go	obl
5	again	again	ADV	_	2 Go	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ‘	punct
12	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mother	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 give	cc
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 answer	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 answer	nsubj
16	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 answer	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 answer	advmod
18	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 give	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 mother	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 box	det
23	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 ear	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ear	det
26	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 box	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	infinitive			Marleen		again	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past		thought's mother and ‘				tree rules
3	not answer speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	Marleen					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	give	infinitive		a box	Marleen	the ear		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient box=Theme on ear=Asset

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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