Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 56
Shall I throw it all out?’
Who acts: I · What happens: throw out · To what, where: much
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 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 throw | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 throw | nsubj |
| 3 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 throw | obj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 it | det |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 throw | compound:prt |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 throw | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw out | shall | I | much | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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