Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 49

If it were a pig now--like that fat gentleman you are driving along at his ease--one could do something with it; it would at any rate make sausages.’

Who acts: beef, you, one · What happens: be, drive, do, make · To what, where: pig, fat gentleman, ease, something, sausages, rate

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 (beef, you, one), 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	_	5 pig	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pig	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pig	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pig	det
5	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 make	advcl
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 pig	advmod
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 gentleman	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 gentleman	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 gentleman	det
10	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gentleman	amod
11	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pig	appos
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 driving	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 driving	aux
14	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 gentleman	acl:relcl
15	along	along	ADV	_	14 driving	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 ease	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 ease	nmod:poss
18	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 driving	obl
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 do	punct
20	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 do	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 driving	conj
23	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 do	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 do	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 pig	punct
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 make	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 make	aux
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 rate	case
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 rate	det
31	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 make	obl
32	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	sausages	sausage	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 make	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 make	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	beef	a pig		now		tree rules
2	drive	present · progressive	you	that fat gentleman not said here	gentleman's ease		along property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gentleman=Theme at ease=Destination
3	do	could	one	something			with beef	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
4	make	would	beef	sausages	any rate			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sausage=Product

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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