Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 18

‘Yes,’ said the lord of the castle, ‘if you will pass the night down there in the old tower, go thither; but I warn you, it is at the peril of your life, for it is full of wild dogs, which bark and howl without stopping, and at certain hours a man has to be given to them, whom they at once devour.’

Who acts: you, I, tower, wild dogs, man, dogs · What happens: say, pass, go, warn, be, bark · To what, where: lord, old tower, you, peril, dogs · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, I, tower, wild dogs), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lord	det
7	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 castle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 castle	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lord	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pass	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 pass	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 pass	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 pass	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 pass	aux
16	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 night	det
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pass	obj
19	down	down	ADV	_	20 there	advmod
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 pass	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 tower	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tower	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tower	amod
24	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pass	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 pass	conj
27	thither	thither	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 warn	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 warn	cc
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 warn	nsubj
31	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 warn	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 peril	punct
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 peril	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 peril	cop
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 peril	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 peril	det
38	peril	peril	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 warn	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 life	case
40	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 life	nmod:poss
41	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 peril	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 full	punct
43	for	for	SCONJ	_	46 full	mark
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 full	nsubj
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 full	cop
46	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 warn	advcl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 dogs	case
48	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 dogs	amod
49	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 full	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 bark	punct
51	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 bark	nsubj
52	bark	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 dogs	acl:relcl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 howl	cc
54	howl	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 bark	conj
55	without	without	SCONJ	_	56 stopping	mark
56	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	54 howl	advcl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 has	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 has	cc
59	at	at	ADP	_	61 hours	case
60	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 hours	amod
61	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 has	obl
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 man	det
63	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 has	nsubj
64	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
65	to	to	PART	_	67 given	mark
66	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	67 given	aux:pass
67	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	64 has	xcomp
68	to	to	ADP	_	69 them	case
69	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 given	obl
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 devour	punct
71	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	75 devour	obj
72	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 devour	nsubj
73	at	at	ADP	_	74 once	case
74	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	75 devour	obl
75	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 has	conj
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
77	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the lord of the castle					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lord=Topic
2	pass a condition, not said to happen	future	you			the old tower; there	night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in tower=Location
3	go	infinitive	you not said here					thither property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	warn speech: warn	present	I		you				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	is	present	tower			the peril		of your life	tree rules
6	is	present	tower					of wild dogs; full property	tree rules
7	bark	present	wild dogs						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	howl	present	wild dogs not said here						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	stop	gerund	wild dogs not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
10	have	present	a man				hour		tree rules
11	give	to-infinitive · passive	a man not said here		dogs = dog				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: to they=Recipient
12	devour	infinitive	dogs = dog						vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient

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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