Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 71
I know nothing of where the pig was either bred or born; but he may have been the squire’s for aught I can tell: you know this country better than I do, take my pig and give me the goose.’
Who acts: I, Hans, you · What happens: know, breed, bear, be, tell, do · To what, where: nothing, pig, country, goose, me · 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 (I, Hans, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 know | obj |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 bred | mark |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 bred | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pig | det |
| 7 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bred | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bred | aux:pass |
| 9 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 bred | advmod |
| 10 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 nothing | acl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 born | cc |
| 12 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 bred | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 aught | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 aught | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 aught | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 aught | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 aught | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 aught | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 squire | det |
| 20 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 aught | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 squire | case |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 aught | case |
| 23 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 2 know | obl |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 tell | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 tell | aux |
| 26 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 aught | acl:relcl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 know | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 know | nsubj |
| 29 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | parataxis |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 country | det |
| 31 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 know | obj |
| 32 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 know | ccomp |
| 33 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 35 do | mark |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 do | nsubj |
| 35 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 better | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 take | punct |
| 37 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 know | parataxis |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 pig | nmod:poss |
| 39 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 take | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 give | cc |
| 41 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 37 take | conj |
| 42 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 give | iobj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 goose | det |
| 44 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 give | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | breed | past · passive | the pig | either property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is | may · perfect | Hans | for aught | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | can | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | know | present | you | this country | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | do | present | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | take | infinitive | my pig | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument pig=Destination | |||||
| 9 | give | infinitive | the goose | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient goose=Theme |
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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