Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 108
If you are cold, come and take a seat by the fire and warm yourselves.’
Who acts: you · What happens: be, come, take, warm · To what, where: seat, yourselves
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 cold | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 cold | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cold | cop |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 come | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cold | punct |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 take | cc |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 seat | det |
| 10 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fire | det |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 warm | cc |
| 15 | warm | warm | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | conj |
| 16 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 warm | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | you not said here | a seat | by the fire | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme | |||
| 4 | warm | infinitive | you not said here | yourselves | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent yourselves=Patient |
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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