Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 103

‘How can you ask?’ said Hans; ‘I should be the happiest man in the world, if I could have money whenever I put my hand in my pocket: what could I want more? there’s the goose.’

Who acts: you, Hans, I · What happens: ask, say, be, have, put, want · To what, where: happiest man, world, money, hand, pocket, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Hans, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 ask	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 ask	nsubj
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	ccomp
9	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 man	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 man	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 man	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 man	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 man	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	happiest	happy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 man	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 have	aux
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ask	conj
26	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	obj
27	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 put	advmod
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 put	nsubj
29	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 have	advcl
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hand	nmod:poss
31	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 put	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 pocket	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 pocket	nmod:poss
34	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 put	obl
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 want	punct
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 want	obj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 want	aux
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 want	nsubj
39	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ask	parataxis
40	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 want	obj
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	39 want	punct
42	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	43 ’s	expl
43	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 want	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 goose	det
45	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 ’s	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	can	you				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	Hans				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	should	I	the happiest man	the world		tree rules
4	have a condition, not said to happen	could	I	money			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
5	put	past	I	my hand	my pocket	whenever property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in pocket=Destination
6	want	could	I	more			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme more=Attribute

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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