Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 2

The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter?

Who acts: world, cards · What happens: not think, think, care, know · 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 (world, cards), 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 world	det
2	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 think	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 think	aux
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADV	_	8 think	advmod
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 think	advmod
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 think	advmod
8	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 think	obl
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 think	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 think	nsubj
13	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 think	advcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 themselves	case
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 think	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 care	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 care	cc
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 care	nsubj
19	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 think	ccomp
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 care	nsubj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 world	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 world	det
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 care	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 care	punct
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 know	obj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 know	aux
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 know	nsubj
28	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 care	parataxis
29	about	about	ADP	_	31 matter	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 matter	det
31	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 know	obl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	may	the world	of cards = card; always, likely property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	think speech: other	present	cards = card	of cards = card	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	care	present		for the world	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for world=Theme
4	know	can	world	about the matter	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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