Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 9
‘I had rather die than place you in such great danger as you must meet with in your journey.’
Who acts: I, you, your · What happens: die, meet, journey · To what, where: you
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 (I, you, your), 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 | _ | 5 die | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 die | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 die | aux |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 die | advmod |
| 5 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 die | obl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 die | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 danger | case |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 danger | amod |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 danger | amod |
| 12 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 die | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 meet | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 meet | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 meet | aux |
| 16 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 die | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 journey | case |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 journey | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 journey | nmod:poss |
| 20 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 meet | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 die | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | I | you | than place; in such great danger | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in danger=Attribute | |||
| 2 | meet | must | you | with your journey | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with journey=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | journey | your | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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