Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 172

The dead man, however, got up and cried: ‘Now will I strangle you.’

Who acts: dead man, I · What happens: get up, cry, strangle · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (dead man, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	7 got	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADV	_	7 got	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cried	cc
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 got	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 strangle	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 strangle	punct
13	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 strangle	advmod
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 strangle	aux
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 strangle	nsubj
16	strangle	strangle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	ccomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 strangle	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 strangle	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 strangle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past	the dead man			however property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	cry speech: express	past	the dead man not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	strangle	future	I	you	now		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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