Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 39
If I were to fall from one of these great clods, I should undoubtedly break my neck.’
Who acts: I · What happens: fall, break · To what, where: neck
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 (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 | _ | 5 fall | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fall | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fall | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 fall | mark |
| 5 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 break | advcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 fall | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 clods | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 clods | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 clods | amod |
| 11 | clods | clod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fall | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 break | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 break | aux |
| 15 | undoubtedly | undoubtedly | ADV | _ | 16 break | advmod |
| 16 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 neck | nmod:poss |
| 18 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 break | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 break | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 break | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall a condition, not said to happen | past | I | from one of this great clods | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from one=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | break | should | I | my neck | undoubtedly property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=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: «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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