Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 184
‘Softly, softly, do not talk so big.
Who acts: you · What happens: not talk
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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 talk | punct |
| 2 | Softly | softly | ADV | _ | 4 softly | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Softly | punct |
| 4 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 8 talk | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 softly | punct |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 talk | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 talk | advmod |
| 8 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 big | advmod |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 talk | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not talk | imperative · do-support | you not said here | big, softly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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