Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 38
‘If he had but left me one, so that something remained for me to eat.’
Who acts: master · What happens: have, leave, remain, eat · To what, where: something, me
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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 | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 had | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 left | cc |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 left | iobj |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 me | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 something | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 something | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 something | mark |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 had | obj |
| 13 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 something | acl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 remained | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 eat | mark |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 remained | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 something | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 something | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | master | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | master not said here | me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | remain | participle | for me | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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