Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 25

‘Give an answer,’ cried the boy, ‘or take yourself off, you have no business here at night.’

Who acts: you · What happens: give, cry, take off, have · To what, where: answer, boy, yourself, business

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	_	2 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	parataxis
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 answer	det
4	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ‘	punct
11	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boy	conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 take	cc
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	conj
14	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 take	obj
15	off	off	ADP	_	13 take	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	conj
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 business	det
20	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 have	advmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 night	case
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	give	infinitive		a answer			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past		the boy and ‘			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic
3	take off	infinitive		yourself			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme
4	have	present	you	no business	here	night	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=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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