Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 11

I shall drive there in my carriage at two o’clock in the afternoon for three successive days; the first day it will be drawn by four white, the second by four chestnut, and the last by four black horses; but if you fail to keep awake and I find you sleeping, I shall not be set free.’

Who acts: I, first day, you · What happens: drive, draw, fail, not keep, find, sleep · To what, where: carriage, o’clock, you

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, first day, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 drive	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 drive	aux
3	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 drive	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 carriage	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 carriage	nmod:poss
7	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drive	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 o’clock	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 o’clock	nummod
10	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drive	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 afternoon	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 afternoon	det
13	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drive	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 days	case
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 days	nummod
16	successive	successive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 days	amod
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drive	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 day	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 day	det
20	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 day	amod
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drive	obl:unmarked
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 drawn	nsubj:pass
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 drawn	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 drawn	aux:pass
25	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 day	acl:relcl
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 white	case
27	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 white	nummod
28	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 drawn	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 second	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 second	det
31	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 day	conj
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 chestnut	case
33	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 chestnut	nummod
34	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 second	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 last	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 last	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 last	det
38	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 second	conj
39	by	by	ADP	_	42 horses	case
40	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 horses	nummod
41	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 horses	amod
42	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 last	obl
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	62 free	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	62 free	cc
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	47 fail	mark
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 fail	nsubj
47	fail	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	62 free	advcl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 keep	mark
49	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 fail	xcomp
50	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 keep	xcomp
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 find	cc
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 find	nsubj
53	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 fail	conj
54	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	53 find	obj
55	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	53 find	xcomp
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 fail	punct
57	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	62 free	nsubj
58	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 free	aux
59	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	61 set	advmod
60	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	61 set	cop
61	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 free	amod
62	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 second	conj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drive	punct
64	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 drive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	shall	I		my carriage; there	afternoon; day	at two o’clock	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent in carriage=Destination at o'clock=Initial_Location
2	draw	future · passive	the first day not said here	o’clock = o'clock			by four white	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	fail a condition, not said to happen	present	you					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	not keep	to-infinitive	you not said here				awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	find	present	I	you				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Attribute clause=Theme
6	sleep	gerund	you not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not is	infinitive					set 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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