Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 14

"I am desirous to obtain the most splendid carpet in the world; just now it would be extremely useful to me."

Who acts: eastwards, carpet · What happens: be, obtain · To what, where: splendid carpet, world, eastwards · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eastwards, carpet), 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	_	4 desirous	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 desirous	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 desirous	cop
4	desirous	desirous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 obtain	mark
6	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 desirous	csubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 carpet	det
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 splendid	advmod
9	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 carpet	amod
10	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 obtain	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carpet	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 useful	punct
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 now	advmod
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 useful	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 useful	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 useful	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 useful	cop
20	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	21 useful	advmod
21	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 desirous	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 useful	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 desirous	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 desirous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	eastwards = eastward					desirous property	tree rules
2	obtain in a quote	to-infinitive		the splendid carpet		the world			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset carpet=Theme
3	is in a quote	would	carpet		eastwards = eastward		now	extremely, useful property	tree rules

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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