Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 114

Wait, I must first cut them for you.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: wait, cut · To what, where: claws

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, I), 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 cut	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cut	aux
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 cut	advmod
6	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cut	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 cut	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut	must	I	claws = claw				for you; first property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Product for you=Beneficiary

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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