Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 51
It is true that I have carried thee off; but that is because of my overwhelming love for thee.
Who acts: merchant, I, that · What happens: be, carry off · To what, where: thee
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, I, that), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 carried | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 carried | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 carried | aux |
| 7 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 true | advcl |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 carried | obj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 carried | compound:prt |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 love | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 love | cc |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 love | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 love | cop |
| 14 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 18 love | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 because | fixed |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 love | nmod:poss |
| 17 | overwhelming | overwhelming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 love | amod |
| 18 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 true | parataxis |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 thee | case |
| 20 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 love | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | merchant | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry off | present · perfect | I | thee | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | that | because my overwhelming love; for thee | 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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