Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 105

For," thought he to himself, "a richer wife thou canst not have in all the world."

Who acts: thou · What happens: think, not have · To what, where: King, richer wife, world

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 thought	mark
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 thought	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 wife	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wife	det
11	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 wife	amod
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	parataxis
13	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 have	nsubj
14	canst	can	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 have	advmod
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wife	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 world	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 world	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 wife	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 wife	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	past		King	King				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
2	not have	can	thou	a richer wife not said here		all world			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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