Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 79
"Yes," replied the wife, and sighed, "even if we had only one, and it were quite small, and only as big as a thumb, I should be quite satisfied, and we would still love it with all our hearts."
Who acts: wife, fire, peasant, we · What happens: reply, sigh, be, love · To what, where: one, fire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, fire, peasant, we), 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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wife | det |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sighed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sighed | cc |
| 10 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 one | punct |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 one | advmod |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 one | mark |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 one | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 one | aux |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 one | advmod |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 sighed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 small | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 small | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 small | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 small | cop |
| 23 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 24 small | advmod |
| 24 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sighed | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 big | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 big | cc |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 29 big | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 big | advmod |
| 29 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 small | parataxis |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 thumb | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 thumb | det |
| 32 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 big | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 satisfied | punct |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 satisfied | nsubj |
| 35 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 satisfied | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 satisfied | cop |
| 37 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 38 satisfied | advmod |
| 38 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 big | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 love | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 love | cc |
| 41 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 love | nsubj |
| 42 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 love | aux |
| 43 | still | still | ADV | _ | 44 love | advmod |
| 44 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 small | parataxis |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 love | obj |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 hearts | case |
| 47 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 49 hearts | det:predet |
| 48 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 49 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 love | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the wife | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sigh | past | the wife not said here | one | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | fire | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | should | peasant | satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | love in a quote | would | we | fire | still | with our hearts | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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