Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 18

‘Heaven forbid!’ said the ass, ‘come with us Master Chanticleer; it will be better, at any rate, than staying here to have your head cut off!

Who acts: Heaven, ass, Chanticleer, head · What happens: forbid, say, come, be, stay, have · To what, where: rate, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven, ass, Chanticleer, head), 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	_	3 forbid	punct
2	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 forbid	nsubj
3	forbid	forbid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 forbid	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 forbid	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ass	det
8	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 Chanticleer	case
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 Chanticleer	nsubj
14	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Chanticleer	compound
15	Chanticleer	chanticleer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 better	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 better	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 better	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 better	cop
20	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 said	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rate	punct
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 rate	case
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 rate	det
24	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 better	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 staying	punct
26	than	than	SCONJ	_	27 staying	mark
27	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 staying	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 have	mark
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 staying	advcl
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
33	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 have	xcomp
34	off	off	ADP	_	33 cut	compound:prt
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	forbid	infinitive	Heaven				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
2	say speech: assert	past	the ass				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	infinitive	the ass not said here			with Master Chanticleer	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	future	Chanticleer		any rate	good property	tree rules
5	stay	gerund	the ass not said here		here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	have	to-infinitive	the ass not said here	your head			tree rules
7	cut off	participle	your head not said here				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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