Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 93

‘Ah, be silent,’ said the hostess, ‘so many prying persons have already lost their lives, it would be a pity and a shame if such beautiful eyes as these should never see the daylight again.’

Who acts: hostess, these · What happens: be, say, pry, lose, not see · To what, where: hostess, many prying persons, pity, daylight · 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 (hostess, these), 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	_	5 silent	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 silent	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 silent	cop
5	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 silent	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 silent	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hostess	det
10	hostess	hostess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hostess	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 lost	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 many	advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 persons	amod
15	prying	pry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 persons	amod
16	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lost	nsubj:pass
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 lost	aux
18	already	already	ADV	_	19 lost	advmod
19	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	conj
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 lives	nmod:poss
21	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lost	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pity	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pity	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 pity	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 pity	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 pity	det
27	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lost	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 shame	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 shame	det
30	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pity	conj
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 eyes	mark
32	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 eyes	amod
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 eyes	amod
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 shame	nmod
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 see	mark
36	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	39 see	nsubj
37	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 see	aux
38	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	39 see	advmod
39	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 lost	advcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 daylight	det
41	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 see	obj
42	again	again	ADV	_	39 see	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive				silent property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the hostess			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hostess=Topic
3	pry	gerund					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lose	present · perfect · passive		many prying persons			tree rules
5	is a	would	hostess	a pity and a shame such beautiful eyes			tree rules
6	not see	should	these	the daylight	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daylight=Stimulus

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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