Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 16
‘With all my heart,’ said Hans: ‘but as you are so kind to me, I must tell you one thing--you will have a weary task to draw that silver about with you.’
Who acts: you, I, weary task · What happens: say, be, tell, have, draw · To what, where: Hans, me, one thing, you, weary task, silver · 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, I, weary task), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 5 heart | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 heart | det:predet |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heart | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 heart | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 tell | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 tell | cc |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 kind | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 kind | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 kind | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 kind | advmod |
| 17 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tell | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 kind | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kind | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 tell | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 tell | aux |
| 23 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 tell | iobj |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 thing | nummod |
| 26 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tell | obj |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 have | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 have | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 have | aux |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 tell | parataxis |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 task | det |
| 32 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 task | amod |
| 33 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 have | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 draw | mark |
| 35 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 have | xcomp |
| 36 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 silver | det |
| 37 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 draw | obj |
| 38 | about | about | ADV | _ | 35 draw | advmod |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 you | case |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 draw | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 tell | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hans | with my heart | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | me | kind property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | must | I | one thing | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient thing=Topic | |||
| 4 | have | future | you | a weary task | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | draw | to-infinitive | a weary task not said here | that silver | with you; about property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=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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