Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 31
You are not eating or drinking anything, do you want to kill yourself?’
Who acts: You · What happens: not eat, drink, want, kill · To what, where: anything, yourself
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 (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 eating | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eating | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 eating | advmod |
| 4 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 drinking | cc |
| 6 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 eating | conj |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 drinking | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 want | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 want | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 want | nsubj |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 eating | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 kill | mark |
| 13 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 want | xcomp |
| 14 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 kill | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 want | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 eating | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat | present · progressive | You | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drink | gerund | You not said here | anything | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 3 | want | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | yourself | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=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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