Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 57
Pray, with all your cleverness, why did not you manage to keep your eyes open?
Who acts: you · What happens: pray, not manage, not keep · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. 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 | Pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cleverness | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 cleverness | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 cleverness | det:predet |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cleverness | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cleverness | cleverness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pray | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 manage | punct |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 manage | advmod |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 manage | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 manage | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 manage | nsubj |
| 12 | manage | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cleverness | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 keep | mark |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 manage | xcomp |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 keep | obj |
| 17 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 keep | xcomp |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | imperative | you not said here | with your cleverness | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | not manage | past · do-support | you | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not keep | to-infinitive | you not said here | your eyes | open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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