Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 86

That's of no consequence, father, if my mother will only harness it, I will sit in the horse's ear, and call out to him how he is to go." "

Who acts: That, mother, I, Father · What happens: be, harness, sit, call out · To what, where: horse, ear, Father

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 (That, mother, I, Father), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 consequence	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 consequence	cop
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 consequence	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 consequence	det
5	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 father	punct
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 consequence	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 harness	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 harness	mark
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 harness	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 harness	aux
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 harness	advmod
14	harness	harness	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 consequence	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 harness	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 sit	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 sit	aux
19	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 consequence	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	24 ear	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 horse	det
22	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ear	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 horse	case
24	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sit	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 call	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 call	cc
27	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 sit	parataxis
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 call	compound:prt
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 call	obl
31	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	35 go	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 go	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 go	cop
34	to	to	PART	_	35 go	mark
35	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 call	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 sit	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 sit	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 consequence	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	That				of no consequence and father	tree rules
2	harness a condition, not said to happen	future	my mother	horse				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination
3	sit	future	I			the horse's ear		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ear=Location
4	call out speech: assert	infinitive			Father			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	is	present	Father				go property	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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