Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 55
Take these and go into the wide world, and tell no one from whence you come, and who is your father, for I have reason to be ashamed of you.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: take, go, tell, come, be, have · To what, where: these, wide world, one, father, reason · 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 (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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 go | cc |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 7 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 world | amod |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tell | cc |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | obj |
| 14 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 17 come | mark |
| 15 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 come | advmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 come | nsubj |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 father | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 father | cc |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 father | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 father | cop |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 have | punct |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 have | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 have | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 28 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 ashamed | mark |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 ashamed | cop |
| 31 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 reason | acl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 you | case |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 ashamed | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | these | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | you not said here | the wide world | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | no one | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | come | present | you | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | your father | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | have | present | I | reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is | to-infinitive | I not said here | reason not said here | of you; ashamed property | 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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