Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 81

I must first, however, prove whether all you have told me about your three things is true.’

Who acts: I · What happens: prove, tell, be · To what, where: all, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	7 prove	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 prove	aux
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 prove	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 first	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	7 prove	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
7	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	12 told	mark
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 told	nsubj:pass
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj:pass
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 told	aux
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 true	advcl
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	about	about	ADP	_	17 things	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 things	nmod:poss
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 things	nummod
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 told	obl
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 true	cop
19	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 prove	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 prove	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 prove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	prove	must	I			first, however property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		all	me	about your three things	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic
3	is	present				true 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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