Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 86

You appear certainly an uncommon man, but they will soon put you to rights."

Who acts: You, daughters · What happens: appear, put · To what, where: uncommon man, you

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 (You, daughters), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 appear	nsubj
2	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	6 man	advmod
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 appear	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 put	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 put	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 put	aux
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 put	advmod
12	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 appear	parataxis
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 put	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 rights	case
15	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 put	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 appear	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 appear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	present	You	a uncommon man					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put	future	daughters = daughter		you			to rights; soon property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Goal

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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