Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 7
If it holds the water, I will again take a wife; but if it runs through, I will not have her."
Who acts: boot, I · What happens: hold, take, run through, not have · To what, where: water, wife
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 (boot, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 holds | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 holds | nsubj |
| 3 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holds | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 holds | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 take | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 take | advmod |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wife | det |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 have | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 runs | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 runs | nsubj |
| 17 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | advcl |
| 18 | through | through | ADV | _ | 17 runs | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 runs | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 have | advmod |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 take | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 have | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold a condition, not said to happen | present | boot | the water | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | future | I | a wife | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | |||
| 3 | run through a condition, not said to happen | present | boot | through property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not have | future | I | wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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