Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 33

‘If I have only a piece of bread (and I certainly shall always be able to get that), I can, whenever I like, eat my butter and cheese with it; and when I am thirsty I can milk my cow and drink the milk: and what can I wish for more?’

Who acts: I · What happens: have, be, get, like, eat, cow · To what, where: piece, that, butter, milk, milk cow

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), 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 have	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 have	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 piece	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 piece	det
7	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 bread	case
9	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 piece	nmod
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 able	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 able	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 able	nsubj
13	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	17 able	advmod
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 able	aux
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 able	advmod
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	cop
17	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 piece	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 get	mark
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	xcomp
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 get	obj
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 able	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 can	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct
26	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 like	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 like	nsubj
28	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 can	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 eat	punct
30	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	28 like	conj
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 butter	nmod:poss
32	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eat	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 cheese	cc
34	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 butter	conj
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 eat	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 thirsty	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 thirsty	cc
39	when	when	SCONJ	_	42 thirsty	mark
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 thirsty	nsubj
41	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 thirsty	cop
42	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	parataxis
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 cow	nsubj
44	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 cow	aux
45	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 cow	compound
46	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 cow	nmod:poss
47	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 thirsty	parataxis
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 drink	cc
49	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 cow	conj
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 milk	det
51	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 drink	obj
52	:	:	PUNCT	_	57 wish	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 wish	cc
54	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	57 wish	obj
55	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 wish	aux
56	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 wish	nsubj
57	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 cow	parataxis
58	for	for	ADP	_	59 more	case
59	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	57 wish	obl
60	?	?	PUNCT	_	57 wish	punct
61	’	'	PUNCT	_	57 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	a piece of bread		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient
2	is	shall	I		able, always, certainly property	tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive	I not said here	that		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
4	like	present	I		whenever property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	eat	infinitive	I not said here	my butter and cheese	with butter	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=Patient
6	is	present	I		thirsty property	tree rules
7	cow	can	I			tree rules
8	drink	infinitive	I not said here	the milk		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
9	wish	can	I	my milk cow	for more	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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