Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 21

But the husband thought to himself, if one's wife acts so, one must look after things oneself.

Who acts: husband, wife, one · What happens: think, act, look · To what, where: husband

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, wife, one), 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	_	4 thought	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 husband	det
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 thought	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 acts	punct
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 acts	mark
9	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 one	case
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 acts	nsubj
12	acts	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
13	so	so	ADV	_	12 acts	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 look	punct
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 look	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 look	aux
17	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 acts	advcl
18	after	after	ADP	_	19 things	case
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 look	obl
20	oneself	oneself	PRON	PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 things	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the husband	husband		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	act	present	one's wife			vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	must	one		after things oneself	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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