Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 51
‘Yes, father, right willingly, wait only until it is day.
Who acts: father, devil · What happens: wait, be
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 (father, devil), 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 | _ | 4 father | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 father | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wait | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 willingly | punct |
| 6 | right | right | ADV | _ | 7 willingly | advmod |
| 7 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 4 father | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 father | punct |
| 9 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 day | advmod |
| 11 | until | until | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 day | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 day | cop |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | infinitive | father | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | devil | until day | 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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