Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 183
‘I will soon seize you,’ said the fiend.
Who acts: I · What happens: seize, say · To what, where: you, fiend · 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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 seize | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 seize | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 seize | aux |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 seize | advmod |
| 5 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 seize | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seize | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 seize | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fiend | det |
| 11 | fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | future | I | you | soon property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the fiend | 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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