Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 106
People are so kind; they seem really to think I do them a favour in letting them make me rich, and giving me good bargains.’
Who acts: People, I · What happens: be, seem, think, do, let, make · To what, where: People, me, good bargains
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 (People, 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 kind | advmod |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 seem | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seem | nsubj |
| 7 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | parataxis |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 think | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 think | mark |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | parataxis |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | parataxis |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 do | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 favour | det |
| 15 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obj |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 letting | mark |
| 17 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 do | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 letting | obj |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 letting | xcomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 make | obj |
| 21 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 make | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kind | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 giving | cc |
| 24 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 kind | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 giving | iobj |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bargains | amod |
| 27 | bargains | bargain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 giving | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kind | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | People | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | People | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | do | present | I | People | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | let | gerund | I not said here | People | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | make | infinitive | People not said here | me | rich property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | |||
| 7 | give | gerund | People not said here | good bargains | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bargain=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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