Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 60
Can't you think of something better?"
Who acts: you · What happens: not think
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 think | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 something | case |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 think | obl |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 something | amod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | can | you | of something | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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