Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, sentence 11

‘I think,’ answered the bean, ‘that as we have so fortunately escaped death, we should keep together like good companions, and lest a new mischance should overtake us here, we should go away together, and repair to a foreign country.’

Who acts: I, we, new mischance · What happens: think, answer, have, escape, keep together, overtake · To what, where: repair, bean, escaped death, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we, new mischance), 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	_	3 think	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bean	det
8	bean	bean	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 that	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 that	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 answered	conj
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 have	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 keep	advcl
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 fortunately	advmod
16	fortunately	fortunately	ADV	_	17 escaped	advmod
17	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 death	amod
18	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 keep	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 keep	aux
22	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 answered	parataxis
23	together	together	ADV	_	22 keep	advmod
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 companions	case
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 companions	amod
26	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 keep	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 overtake	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 overtake	cc
29	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	34 overtake	mark
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 mischance	det
31	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 mischance	amod
32	mischance	mischance	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 overtake	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 overtake	aux
34	overtake	overtake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 think	ccomp
35	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 overtake	obj
36	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 overtake	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 go	punct
38	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 go	nsubj
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 go	aux
40	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 overtake	parataxis
41	away	away	ADV	_	40 go	advmod
42	together	together	ADV	_	40 go	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 repair	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 repair	cc
45	repair	repair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 think	obl
46	to	to	ADP	_	49 country	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 country	det
48	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 country	amod
49	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 repair	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I	repair to a foreign country			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past		the bean			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bean=Eventuality
3	have	present	we	escaped death			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Patient
4	escape	participle				fortunately property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	keep together	should	we			like good companions; together property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	overtake	should	a new mischance	us	here		tree rules
7	go away	should	we			away, together property	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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