Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 13
I will send you to a third master, but if you learn nothing this time also, I will no longer be your father.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: send, learn, be · To what, where: you, third master, nothing, father
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 send | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 send | aux |
| 3 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 send | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 master | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 master | det |
| 7 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 master | amod |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 send | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 father | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 father | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 learn | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 learn | nsubj |
| 13 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 father | advcl |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 learn | obj |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 learn | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 learn | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 learn | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 father | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 father | aux |
| 21 | no | no | ADV | _ | 22 longer | advmod |
| 22 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 father | advmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 father | cop |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 send | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | future | I | you | a third master | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to master=Destination | |||
| 2 | learn a condition, not said to happen | present | you | nothing | time | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||
| 3 | is a | future | I | your father | long property | tree rules |
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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