Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 11
‘No!’ said the lion, ‘nothing, unless you undertake to give me whatever meets you on your return home; if you agree to this, I will give you your life, and the rose too for your daughter.’
Who acts: you, whatever, I, your · What happens: say, undertake, give, meet, agree, return · To what, where: lion, me, you, return, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, whatever, I, your), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | 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 lion | det |
| 7 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nothing | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 nothing | punct |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 lion | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 undertake | punct |
| 12 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 14 undertake | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 undertake | nsubj |
| 14 | undertake | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 undertake | xcomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 give | iobj |
| 18 | whatever | whatever | DET | PronType=Int | 19 meets | nsubj |
| 19 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | acl:relcl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 meets | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 return | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 return | nmod:poss |
| 23 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 meets | obl |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 return | advmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 agree | punct |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 agree | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 agree | nsubj |
| 28 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 this | case |
| 30 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 agree | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 give | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 give | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 give | aux |
| 34 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 agree | conj |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 give | iobj |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 life | nmod:poss |
| 37 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 give | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 rose | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 rose | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 rose | det |
| 41 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 42 | too | too | ADV | _ | 41 rose | advmod |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 daughter | case |
| 44 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 45 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 rose | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 rose | punct |
| 47 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the lion | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | undertake a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | meet | present | whatever | you | your return | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | agree speech: agree a condition, not said to happen | present | you | to this | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | give | future | I | your life | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient life=Theme | |||
| 7 | return | your | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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