Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 138

‘If you can perform such deeds as that, you are no gardener’s boy; tell me, who is your father?’

Who acts: you · What happens: perform, be, tell · To what, where: such deeds, boy, me, father · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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 perform	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 perform	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 perform	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 perform	aux
5	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deeds	amod
7	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 perform	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 perform	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 boy	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 boy	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 boy	cop
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 gardener	det
14	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 boy	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 gardener	case
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 perform	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 perform	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tell	iobj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 father	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 father	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 father	cop
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	ccomp
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 perform	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 perform	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	perform	can	you	such deeds		as that	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Theme
2	is a	present	you	no gardener's boy			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	is a	present		your father			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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