Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 136
‘If you desire further proof, you may see the wound which your people gave me when they followed me.
Who acts: you, people · What happens: desire, see, give, follow · To what, where: further proof, wound, me
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, people), 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 | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 desire | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 desire | nsubj |
| 4 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | advcl |
| 5 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 proof | amod |
| 6 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 desire | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 desire | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wound | det |
| 12 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 gave | obj |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 people | nmod:poss |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wound | acl:relcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | iobj |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 followed | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 followed | nsubj |
| 20 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gave | advcl |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 followed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire a condition, not said to happen | present | you | further proof | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot proof=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | may | you | the wound | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wound=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | give | past | your people | the wound | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient which=Theme | |||
| 4 | follow | past | people | me | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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