Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 187
‘If you are stronger, I will let you go--come, we will try.’
Who acts: you, I, we · What happens: be, let, go, come, try · To what, where: you
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, we), 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 stronger | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 stronger | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 stronger | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stronger | cop |
| 5 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | aux |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stronger | parataxis |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 try | punct |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 try | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 try | aux |
| 17 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stronger | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 stronger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | future | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | I not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | try | future | we | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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