Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 50
She is so ill-behaved, and has such a bad and envious disposition, that nobody can wish well to her."
Who acts: girl, nobody · What happens: be, have, wish · To what, where: bad disposition, girl
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 (girl, nobody), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 behaved | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 behaved | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 behaved | advmod |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 behaved | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ill | punct |
| 6 | behaved | behave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 has | cc |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 behaved | parataxis |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 disposition | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 disposition | det |
| 12 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 disposition | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 envious | cc |
| 14 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bad | conj |
| 15 | disposition | disposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wish | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 wish | mark |
| 18 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 wish | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 wish | aux |
| 20 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 has | conj |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 wish | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wish | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 behaved | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 behaved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | girl | behave property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | such bad disposition | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disposition=Patient | |||||
| 3 | wish | can | nobody | girl | well property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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