Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 51
To please you I will change, and give you my fine fat pig for the cow.’
Who acts: you · What happens: change, give · To what, where: fine fat pig, you
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 (you), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 6 change | mark |
| 2 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 6 change | discourse |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 change | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 change | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 change | aux |
| 6 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 give | cc |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 change | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pig | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pig | amod |
| 13 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pig | compound |
| 14 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 cow | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cow | det |
| 17 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 change | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 change | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | future | you | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | you not said here | my fine fat pig | you | for the cow | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient pig=Theme for cow=Asset |
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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