Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 9
She replied, ‘Go farther into the wood until you come to a house, wherein lives an old woman; she will offer you food and drink, but you must not take of either; if you do, you will fall into a deep sleep, and will not be able to help me.
Who acts: queen, you · What happens: reply, go, come, live, offer, not take · To what, where: wood, house, old woman, food, you, deep sleep · 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 (queen, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Go | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Go | punct |
| 5 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 Go | advmod |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wood | det |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Go | obl |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Go | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lives | punct |
| 17 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 lives | advmod |
| 18 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 house | acl:relcl |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 woman | amod |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lives | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 offer | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 offer | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 offer | aux |
| 25 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Go | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 offer | iobj |
| 27 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 offer | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 drink | cc |
| 29 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 food | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 take | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 take | cc |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 take | nsubj |
| 33 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 take | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 take | advmod |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 replied | parataxis |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 either | case |
| 37 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 take | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 fall | punct |
| 39 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 41 do | mark |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 do | nsubj |
| 41 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 fall | advcl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 do | punct |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 fall | nsubj |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 fall | aux |
| 45 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 replied | parataxis |
| 46 | into | into | ADP | _ | 49 sleep | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 sleep | det |
| 48 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 sleep | amod |
| 49 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 fall | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 able | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 able | cc |
| 52 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 able | aux |
| 53 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 55 able | advmod |
| 54 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 55 able | cop |
| 55 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 fall | conj |
| 56 | to | to | PART | _ | 57 help | mark |
| 57 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 55 able | xcomp |
| 58 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 57 help | obj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | queen | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | the wood | far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | come | present | you | a house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | live | present | a old woman | wherein property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme woman=Location | ||||
| 5 | offer | future | queen | food and drink | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal food=Theme | |||
| 6 | not take | must | you | of either | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent of either=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | fall | future | you | into a deep sleep result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result | ||||
| 9 | not is | future | you not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | help | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
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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