Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 48
I hate cow-beef; it is not tender enough for me.
Who acts: I, beef · What happens: hate, not be · To what, where: cow beef
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, beef), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hate | nsubj |
| 2 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beef | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 cow | punct |
| 5 | beef | beef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hate | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 tender | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tender | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tender | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 tender | advmod |
| 10 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hate | conj |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 tender | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tender | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | I | cow beef | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beef=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | beef | for me; enough, tender 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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