Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Horse, sentence 17
‘Thou shalt stay in thy stable and be well taken care of.’
Who acts: Thou · What happens: stay, take · To what, where: stable, care
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Horse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou), 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 | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 stay | aux |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 stable | case |
| 6 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 stable | nmod:poss |
| 7 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stay | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 taken | cc |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 taken | aux:pass |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 taken | advmod |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stay | conj |
| 12 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 taken | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | shall | Thou | thy stable | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stable=Location | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive · passive | Thou not said here | care | well property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: care=Theme |
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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