Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 64
If it does not interfere with my future happiness," said the Soldier, who had remarked who it was that addressed him; "if it does not interfere with that, I shall not hesitate."
Who acts: condition, Soldier, I · What happens: not interfere, say, remark, be, address, not hesitate · To what, where: soldier · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (condition, Soldier, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 interfere | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 interfere | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 interfere | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 interfere | advmod |
| 5 | interfere | interfere | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | advcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 happiness | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 8 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 happiness | amod |
| 9 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 interfere | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 interfere | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 interfere | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Soldier | det |
| 14 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remarked | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 remarked | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 remarked | aux |
| 18 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 Soldier | acl:relcl |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 addressed | nsubj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 who | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 who | cop |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 addressed | nsubj |
| 23 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 remarked | parataxis |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 addressed | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 interfere | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 interfere | punct |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 interfere | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 interfere | nsubj |
| 29 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 interfere | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 interfere | advmod |
| 31 | interfere | interfere | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | parataxis |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 that | case |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 interfere | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 hesitate | punct |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 hesitate | nsubj |
| 36 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 hesitate | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 hesitate | advmod |
| 38 | hesitate | hesitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | parataxis |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 hesitate | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 hesitate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not interfere a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | condition | with my future happiness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Soldier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | remark speech: assert in a quote | past · perfect | the Soldier | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | condition | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | address in a quote | past | soldier | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination | |||||
| 6 | not interfere a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | condition | with that | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not hesitate | shall | I | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: 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: «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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