Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 4
If it were ever so small--nay, if it were no bigger than my thumb--I should be very happy, and love it dearly.’
Who acts: wheel, I · What happens: be, not be, love · To what, where: wheel
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 (wheel, 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 | _ | 6 small | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 small | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 small | cop |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 small | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 small | advmod |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 happy | advcl |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 nay | punct |
| 8 | nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 6 small | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bigger | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 bigger | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bigger | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bigger | cop |
| 13 | no | no | ADV | _ | 14 bigger | advmod |
| 14 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 small | parataxis |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 thumb | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 thumb | nmod:poss |
| 17 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bigger | obl |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 small | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 happy | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 happy | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 happy | cop |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 happy | advmod |
| 23 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 love | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 love | cc |
| 26 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 happy | parataxis |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 love | obj |
| 28 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 26 love | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 happy | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wheel | ever | small property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is a condition, not said to happen | past | wheel | than my thumb; big property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | should | I | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | love | present | wheel | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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