Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 54
How could it be otherwise with such a travelling companion as he had at last got?
Who acts: pig · What happens: be, get
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 (pig), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 got | advmod |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 got | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 companion | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 companion | cop |
| 5 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 10 companion | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 companion | case |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 companion | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 companion | det |
| 9 | travelling | travelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 companion | compound |
| 10 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | parataxis |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 had | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 got | aux |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 had | obl |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | pig | with such travelling companion; otherwise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | could · perfect | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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