Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 21
Then the dwarf said, ‘My masters are not at home; but if you will wait till they come, pray step in.’
Who acts: dwarf, masters, you · What happens: say, not be, wait, come, pray in · To what, where: home, step · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Seven Ravens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarf, masters, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dwarf | det |
| 3 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 home | punct |
| 7 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 masters | nmod:poss |
| 8 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 home | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 home | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 home | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 wait | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 wait | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 wait | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 wait | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 wait | aux |
| 18 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 come | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 come | nsubj |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 wait | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pray | punct |
| 23 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 wait | advcl |
| 24 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pray | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 pray | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 wait | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the dwarf | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | My masters | home | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wait a condition, not said to happen | future | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | present | masters = master | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pray in | present | you not said here | step | 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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