Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 38
I will come every evening to see if you have obeyed my order.’
Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: come, see, obey, order · To what, where: order
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 (I, you, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 evening | det |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | advcl |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 obeyed | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 obeyed | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 obeyed | aux |
| 11 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 see | ccomp |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 order | nmod:poss |
| 13 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 obeyed | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | I | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | obey a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | you | my order | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 4 | order | my | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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