Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 9
I should like a drop of sweet red christening wine myself.’
Who acts: I · What happens: like · To what, where: drop
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Cat and Mouse in Partnership. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 like | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 like | aux |
| 3 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 drop | det |
| 5 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 like | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wine | case |
| 7 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wine | amod |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wine | amod |
| 9 | christening | christening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wine | compound |
| 10 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drop | nmod |
| 11 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 10 wine | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | should | I | a drop of sweet red christening wine | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot drop=Theme |
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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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