Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 7
Yet will I be compassionate, and take you in, if you will do what I wish.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, take, do, wish · To what, where: you
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 (I, 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 5 compassionate | cc |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 compassionate | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 compassionate | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 compassionate | cop |
| 5 | compassionate | compassionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 take | cc |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 compassionate | parataxis |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 take | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 take | conj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 wish | obj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 wish | nsubj |
| 18 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 compassionate | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 compassionate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | I | compassionate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | |||||
| 3 | do a condition, not said to happen | future | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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