Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 46
What a shame to take my horse, and give me only a dry cow!
What happens: take, give · To what, where: horse, dry cow, me
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: 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shame | det |
| 3 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 shame | acl |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 give | cc |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 cow | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cow | det |
| 14 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cow | amod |
| 15 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | to-infinitive | my horse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | |||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | a dry cow | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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