Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 26
‘Do your worst, and welcome,’ said the brute, ‘what harm can you do me?’ and passed on.
Who acts: you, welcome, harm · What happens: do, say, pass on · To what, where: worst, brute, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, welcome, harm), 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 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 worst | nmod:poss |
| 4 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 Do | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 7 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 welcome | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 welcome | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 brute | det |
| 12 | brute | brute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 15 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 16 harm | det |
| 16 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 do | iobj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 passed | cc |
| 24 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 passed | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | your worst | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bad=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | welcome | the brute | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | can | what harm | me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | pass on | participle | welcome not said here | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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