Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 27

The boy cried a second time: ‘What do you want here?--speak if you are an honest fellow, or I will throw you down the steps!’

Who acts: boy, you, I · What happens: cry, want, speak, be, throw down · To what, where: honest fellow, steps, 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 (boy, you, 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	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cried	nsubj
3	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cried	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 want	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 want	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 want	obj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 want	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 want	nsubj
12	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cried	conj
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 want	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 want	punct
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 speak	punct
16	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 want	conj
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 fellow	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 fellow	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 fellow	cop
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 fellow	det
21	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fellow	amod
22	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 speak	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 throw	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 throw	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 throw	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 throw	aux
27	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cried	parataxis
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 throw	obj
29	down	down	ADP	_	27 throw	compound:prt
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 steps	det
31	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 throw	obj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 throw	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the boy				time	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present · do-support	you			here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	speak speech: other	infinitive	you not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a honest fellow				tree rules
5	throw down	future	I	the steps	you			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination step=Theme

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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