Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 76

"Foolish little one, don't you think your father would rather have you, than all the hens he ever had in his yard?"

Who acts: you, father · What happens: not think, have · To what, where: Foolish little one, you, hens · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
2	Foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 think	punct
6	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 think	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 think	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 think	nsubj
9	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 one	acl:relcl
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
13	rather	rather	ADV	_	14 have	advmod
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 think	ccomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 have	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hens	punct
17	than	than	ADP	_	20 hens	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 hens	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hens	det
20	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 had	advmod
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hens	acl:relcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 yard	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 yard	nmod:poss
26	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other in a quote	infinitive · do-support	you	Foolish little one not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent one=Attribute clause=Theme
2	have in a quote	would	your father	you		than all hens	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
3	have in a quote	past	father	all hens not said here	ever	in father's yard	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Patient

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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