Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 76
The peasant said: ‘If you will get in, you will be mayor.’
Who acts: peasant, you · What happens: say, get in, be · To what, where: mayor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 peasant | det |
| 2 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 6 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 get | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | aux |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 get | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mayor | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 mayor | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 mayor | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 mayor | cop |
| 15 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the peasant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get in a condition, not said to happen | future | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | future | you | mayor | tree rules |
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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