Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 44

But he said: ‘You have dipped your finger into the water, this time it may pass, but take care you do not again let anything go in.’

Who acts: boy, You, time, anything · What happens: say, dip, pass, take, not let, go in · To what, where: finger, water, care, anything · 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 (boy, You, time, anything), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 dipped	punct
6	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 dipped	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dipped	aux
8	dipped	dip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	conj
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 finger	nmod:poss
10	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dipped	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dipped	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pass	punct
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pass	nsubj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pass	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 pass	aux
19	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 dipped	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 take	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 take	cc
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
23	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 let	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 let	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 let	advmod
27	again	again	ADV	_	28 let	advmod
28	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 take	parataxis
29	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 let	obj
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 let	xcomp
31	in	in	ADV	_	30 go	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 take	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	dip	present · perfect	You	your finger	the water		vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme into water=Destination
3	pass	may	this time				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	infinitive		care			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
5	not let	present · do-support	you	anything		again	tree rules
6	go in	infinitive	anything not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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