Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 38

Who would have thought that this cow, which was to bring him milk and butter and cheese, was all that time utterly dry?

Who acts: cow · What happens: think, be · To what, where: time

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 (cow), 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 thought	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	aux
4	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 cow	mark
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 cow	det
7	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 time	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bring	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 bring	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bring	cop
11	to	to	PART	_	12 bring	mark
12	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cow	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bring	obj
14	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bring	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 butter	cc
16	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 milk	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cheese	cc
18	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 milk	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cow	punct
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 time	cop
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 time	det:predet
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	obl:unmarked
24	utterly	utterly	ADV	_	25 dry	advmod
25	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 time	amod
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would · perfect				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	this cow		bring property	tree rules
3	is a	past		all time		tree rules

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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