Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 67
The least they will do will be to throw you into the horse-pond.
Who acts: roasts, least · What happens: do, be · To what, where: horse pond
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 (roasts, least), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 least | det |
| 2 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 throw | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 least | acl:relcl |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 throw | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 throw | cop |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 throw | mark |
| 9 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 throw | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 pond | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pond | det |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pond | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 horse | punct |
| 15 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 throw | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | roasts = roast | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | future | the least | the horse pond | throw 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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