Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 47
If I kill her, what will she be good for?
Who acts: I · What happens: kill, be · To what, where: shame
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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 kill | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 good | advcl |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kill | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 kill | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 good | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 good | aux |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 good | nsubj |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 good | cop |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 good | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill a condition, not said to happen | present | I | shame | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | future | good property | 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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