Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 55
‘If that is so,’ replied the giant, ‘I will leave you in peace; I only thought of eating you because I had nothing else.’
Who acts: that, I · What happens: be, reply, leave, think, eat, have · To what, where: giant, you, peace, nothing
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 (that, 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 is | mark |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 is | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | advcl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 is | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 giant | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leave | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 leave | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 leave | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 leave | aux |
| 15 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 leave | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 peace | case |
| 18 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leave | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 thought | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 thought | nsubj |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 thought | advmod |
| 22 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | conj |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 eating | mark |
| 24 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 thought | advcl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 eating | obj |
| 26 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 28 had | mark |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 thought | ccomp |
| 29 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 28 had | obj |
| 30 | else | else | ADV | _ | 29 nothing | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | that | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the giant | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave | future | I | you | peace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme in peace=Location | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | eat | gerund | I not said here | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 6 | have | past | I | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
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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