Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 50

‘Why, I can get between the iron window-bars of the parson’s house, and throw you out whatever you want.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: get, throw out, want · To what, where: you, whatever

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, you), 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	_	6 get	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 get	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	between	between	ADP	_	12 bars	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bars	det
9	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bars	amod
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bars	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 window	punct
12	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 parson	det
15	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 house	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 parson	case
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bars	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 throw	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 throw	cc
20	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 get	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 throw	obj
22	out	out	ADP	_	20 throw	compound:prt
23	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 want	obj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 want	nsubj
25	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 throw	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	can	I		between the iron window bars of the parson's house	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	throw out	infinitive	I not said here	you		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	want	present	you	whatever		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whatever=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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