Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 76
‘You may smoke three,’ answered the king, ‘but do not imagine that I will spare your life.’
Who acts: You, I · What happens: smoke, answer, not imagine, spare · To what, where: three, king, life · 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 (You, I), 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 smoke | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 smoke | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 smoke | aux |
| 4 | smoke | smoke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 smoke | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 smoke | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 smoke | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 imagine | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 imagine | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 imagine | cc |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 imagine | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 imagine | advmod |
| 16 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answered | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 spare | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 spare | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 spare | aux |
| 20 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 imagine | ccomp |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 life | nmod:poss |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spare | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smoke | may | You | three | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent three=Source | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not imagine | infinitive · do-support | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | spare | future | I | your life | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset |
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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