Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 3

‘What you say is very true,’ said the wife, sighing, and turning round her wheel; ‘how happy should I be if I had but one child!

Who acts: you, I · What happens: say, be, sigh, turn · To what, where: wife, wheel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 true	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 true	nsubj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 What	acl:relcl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 true	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 true	advmod
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 true	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 true	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wife	det
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sighing	punct
14	sighing	sigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 said	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 turning	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 turning	cc
17	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 sighing	conj
18	round	round	ADP	_	20 wheel	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wheel	nmod:poss
20	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turning	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 happy	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 happy	punct
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 happy	advmod
24	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	parataxis
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 had	aux
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 had	cop
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 happy	parataxis
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 child	cc
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 child	nummod
33	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 happy	conj
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	you				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present				true property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past		the wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic
4	sigh	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	turn	gerund			wife's wheel		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme round wheel=Trajectory
6	is a condition, not said to happen	should	I			have property	tree rules

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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