Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 170

‘See,’ said the king, ‘if you can catch it alive, and we will take it with us.’

Who acts: you, we · What happens: see, say, catch, take · To what, where: king, SKIN · 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, we), 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	_	2 See	punct
2	See	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 See	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 catch	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 catch	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 catch	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 catch	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 catch	aux
13	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 catch	obj
15	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 catch	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 take	cc
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 take	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 take	aux
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 take	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 us	case
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 take	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past		the king		tree rules
3	catch a condition, not said to happen	can	you	SKIN	alive property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	take	future	we	SKIN	with us	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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