Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 72
At this he grew angry, and said: ‘If you will not take care, I cannot help you, I will not be burnt with you,’ and he hung them up again each in his turn.
Who acts: man, you, I · What happens: grow, say, not take, not help, not burnt, hang up · To what, where: this, care, you, I, rags, turn · 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 (man, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 grew | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grew | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | parataxis |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
| 11 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 take | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 take | advmod |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 help | advcl |
| 16 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 help | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 help | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 help | advmod |
| 21 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 help | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 burnt | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 burnt | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 burnt | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 burnt | advmod |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 burnt | aux:pass |
| 28 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 help | parataxis |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 you | case |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 burnt | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 hung | cc |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 hung | nsubj |
| 35 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 hung | obj |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 hung | compound:prt |
| 38 | again | again | ADV | _ | 35 hung | advmod |
| 39 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 hung | advmod |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 turn | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 turn | nmod:poss |
| 42 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hung | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | man | this | angry property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at this=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | not take a condition, not said to happen | future | you | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not help | can | I | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | not burnt | future · passive | I | with you | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hang up | past | man | rags = rag | man's turn | again | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in turn=Destination |
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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