Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 51

‘No, she is mine,’ said the huntsman; ‘for if I had not killed the dragon, he would, after all, have torn you and the princess into pieces.’

Who acts: princess · What happens: be, say, not kill, tear · To what, where: mine, huntsman, I, you, pieces · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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	_	6 mine	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 mine	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mine	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mine	cop
6	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mine	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 mine	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 huntsman	det
11	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 torn	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 torn	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 killed	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 killed	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 killed	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 killed	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 killed	advmod
19	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 would	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dragon	det
21	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 killed	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 killed	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 would	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 torn	aux
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 would	punct
26	after	after	ADP	_	27 all	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 would	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 would	punct
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 torn	aux
30	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	conj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 torn	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 princess	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 princess	det
34	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 you	conj
35	into	into	ADP	_	36 pieces	case
36	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 torn	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	princess	mine		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the huntsman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent huntsman=Topic
3	not kill a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		I		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer dragon=Result
4	tear	would · perfect		you	into pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent you=Patient into piece=Result

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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