Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 58
Next year one of us will take away your beautiful princess, if you do not take care.
Who acts: you · What happens: take away, not take · To what, where: beautiful princess, care
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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 year | amod |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 year | flat |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 us | case |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 one | nmod |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADP | _ | 7 take | compound:prt |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 princess | nmod:poss |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 princess | amod |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 take | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 take | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 take | advmod |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 take | conj |
| 18 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | future | your beautiful princess | year | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not take a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=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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