Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 60
But as you have not a bad heart, and as I mean well by you, there is one thing I will grant you; if you fall into any difficulty, come to the forest and cry: “Iron Hans,” and then I will come and help you.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: have, mean, be, grant, fall, come · To what, where: bad heart, one thing, you, difficulty, forest, Iron Hans
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, I), 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 | _ | 34 come | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 have | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 come | advcl |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 heart | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 heart | det |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 heart | amod |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 thing | cc |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 mean | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 mean | nsubj |
| 13 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 is | advcl |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 mean | advmod |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 mean | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mean | punct |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 is | expl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 thing | cop |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 thing | nummod |
| 21 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | conj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 grant | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 grant | aux |
| 24 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 thing | acl:relcl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 grant | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 come | punct |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 fall | mark |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 fall | nsubj |
| 29 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 come | advcl |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 difficulty | case |
| 31 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 difficulty | det |
| 32 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fall | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fall | punct |
| 34 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 forest | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 forest | det |
| 37 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 come | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 cry | cc |
| 39 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 34 come | conj |
| 40 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 43 Hans | punct |
| 41 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 Hans | punct |
| 42 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Hans | compound |
| 43 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 cry | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 Hans | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 cry | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 come | cc |
| 47 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 50 come | advmod |
| 48 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 50 come | nsubj |
| 49 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 come | aux |
| 50 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 come | conj |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 help | cc |
| 52 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 come | conj |
| 53 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 52 help | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | a bad heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | I | by you; well property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | you not said here | one thing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grant | future | I | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fall a condition, not said to happen | present | you | into any difficulty result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into difficulty=Result | ||||
| 6 | come | imperative | you not said here | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | cry speech: express | infinitive | you not said here | Iron Hans | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hans=Topic | ||||
| 8 | come | future | I | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | help | infinitive | I not said here | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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