Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 20

The youth, however, was without fear, and said: ‘Just let me go down to the barking dogs, and give me something that I can throw to them; they will do nothing to harm me.’

Who acts: youth, me, dogs · What happens: be, say, let, go down, give, throw · To what, where: me, something, dogs, nothing · 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 (youth, me, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 youth	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 fear	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fear	cop
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 fear	case
8	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 youth	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
14	Just	just	ADV	_	15 let	advmod
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 dogs	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dogs	det
21	barking	barking	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dogs	compound
22	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 go	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 give	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 give	cc
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	conj
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 give	iobj
27	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 give	obj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 throw	nsubj
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 throw	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 throw	aux
31	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 something	acl:relcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 throw	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 do	punct
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 do	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 do	aux
37	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	parataxis
38	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	37 do	obj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 harm	mark
40	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 nothing	acl
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 harm	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 do	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past				without fear; however property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the youth				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let	infinitive		me			tree rules
4	go down	infinitive	me not said here			to the barking dogs; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	give	infinitive		something	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme
6	throw	can			dogs = dog		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent to they=Destination
7	do	future	dogs = dog	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
8	harm	to-infinitive	dogs = dog not said here	me			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer

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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