Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 15
‘I will give you my horse, and you shall give me the silver; which will save you a great deal of trouble in carrying such a heavy load about with you.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: give, save, carry, deal · To what, where: horse, you, silver, me, great deal, heavy load
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 (I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 give | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 give | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 silver | det |
| 15 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 save | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 save | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 save | aux |
| 19 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 save | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 deal | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 deal | amod |
| 23 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 save | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 trouble | case |
| 25 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 deal | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 27 carrying | mark |
| 27 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 trouble | advcl |
| 28 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 load | det:predet |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 load | det |
| 30 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 load | amod |
| 31 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 carrying | obj |
| 32 | about | about | ADV | _ | 27 carrying | advmod |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 you | case |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 carrying | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | my horse | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient horse=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | shall | you | the silver | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient silver=Theme | |||
| 3 | save | future | a great deal of trouble | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary deal=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry | gerund | such heavy load | with you; about property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme | ||||
| 5 | deal | trouble | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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