Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 25
However, I’m off now once for all: I like your cow now a great deal better than this smart beast that played me this trick, and has spoiled my best coat, you see, in this puddle; which, by the by, smells not very like a nosegay.
Who acts: I, smart beast, you, puddle · What happens: be off, like, play, spoil, see, not smell · To what, where: cow, me, best coat, puddle
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, smart beast, you, puddle), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 ’m | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ’m | nsubj |
| 4 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADV | _ | 4 ’m | advmod |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 once | advmod |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 ’m | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 once | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 like | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 like | nsubj |
| 12 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ’m | conj |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cow | nmod:poss |
| 14 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 like | obj |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 deal | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 deal | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 deal | amod |
| 18 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 like | conj |
| 19 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 deal | amod |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 beast | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 beast | det |
| 22 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 beast | amod |
| 23 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 better | obl |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 played | nsubj |
| 25 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 beast | acl:relcl |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 played | obj |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 trick | det |
| 28 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 played | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 spoiled | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 spoiled | cc |
| 31 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 spoiled | aux |
| 32 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 ’m | parataxis |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 coat | nmod:poss |
| 34 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 coat | amod |
| 35 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 spoiled | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 see | punct |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 see | nsubj |
| 38 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 spoiled | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 puddle | punct |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 puddle | case |
| 41 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 puddle | det |
| 42 | puddle | puddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 see | obj |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 50 smells | punct |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 smells | nsubj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 which | punct |
| 46 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 which | fixed |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 by | det |
| 48 | by | by | ADP | _ | 46 by | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 which | punct |
| 50 | smells | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 puddle | acl:relcl |
| 51 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 50 smells | advmod |
| 52 | very | very | ADV | _ | 55 nosegay | advmod |
| 53 | like | like | ADP | _ | 55 nosegay | case |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 nosegay | det |
| 55 | nosegay | nosegay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 smells | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ’m | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be off | present | I | however, off, once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | like | present | I | your cow | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | play | past | this smart beast | me | this trick obl:unmarked | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 4 | spoil | present · perfect | my best coat | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | see | present | you | this puddle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer puddle=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | not smell | present | this puddle | like a nosegay | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=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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