Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 60
‘You’re right,’ said Hans, as he weighed it in his hand; ‘but if you talk of fat, my pig is no trifle.’
Who acts: You, Hans, pig · What happens: be, say, weigh, talk · To what, where: tale, hand, trifle · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Hans, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ’re | nsubj |
| 3 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ’re | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’re | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 weighed | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 weighed | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 weighed | nsubj |
| 12 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 weighed | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 weighed | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 trifle | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 trifle | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 trifle | cc |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 talk | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 talk | nsubj |
| 22 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 trifle | advcl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fat | case |
| 24 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 talk | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 talk | punct |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 pig | nmod:poss |
| 27 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 trifle | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 trifle | cop |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 trifle | det |
| 30 | trifle | trifle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 trifle | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 trifle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | You | right property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | weigh | past | Hans | tale | Hans's hand | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value | |||
| 4 | talk a condition, not said to happen | present | you | of fat | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | my pig | no trifle | 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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