Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 73
‘No,’ said they; ‘not unless you undertake not to say, “Heads off!” for if you do we are all dead men.’
Who acts: sword, you, we · What happens: say, not undertake, not say, do, be · To what, where: Heads, dead men · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, you, we), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 undertake | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 undertake | advmod |
| 10 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 12 undertake | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 undertake | nsubj |
| 12 | undertake | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 say | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 say | mark |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 undertake | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Heads | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Heads | punct |
| 18 | Heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 say | obj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 Heads | compound:prt |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 undertake | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 undertake | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 do | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 men | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 men | cop |
| 28 | all | all | ADV | _ | 29 dead | advmod |
| 29 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 men | amod |
| 30 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 do | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | sword | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not undertake a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not say speech: assert | to-infinitive | you not said here | Heads | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent head=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | we | dead men | tree rules |
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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