Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 43

The manikin said: ‘That is an easy thing for me to do, but a very dangerous thing for you, for if it is discovered, you will fare ill.’

Who acts: manikin, That, you · What happens: say, be, do, discover, fare · To what, where: easy thing, manikin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manikin, That, you), 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 manikin	det
2	manikin	manikin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 thing	punct
6	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 thing	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thing	cop
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 thing	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 do	mark
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thing	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thing	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 thing	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 thing	det
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 dangerous	advmod
19	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thing	amod
20	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	appos
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 thing	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fare	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 fare	mark
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 discovered	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 discovered	nsubj:pass
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 discovered	aux:pass
28	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 fare	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 discovered	punct
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 fare	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 fare	aux
32	fare	fare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thing	conj
33	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fare	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thing	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the manikin			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	That	a easy thing	for me	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	the manikin not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	discover a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		manikin		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
5	fare	future	you		ill property	tree rules

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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