Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 70
So he said: ‘Take care, or I will hang you up again.’
Who acts: fire, I · What happens: say, take, hang up · To what, where: care, 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 (fire, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
| 6 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hang | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 hang | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 hang | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 hang | aux |
| 12 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Take | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 hang | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 hang | compound:prt |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 hang | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | fire | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hang up | future | I | you | again | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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