Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 77
I don’t care whose pig it is, but wherever it came from it has been a very good friend to me.
Who acts: I, pig · What happens: not care, be, come · To what, where: pig, good friend, me
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, pig), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2591:112): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | 4 care | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 care | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 care | advmod |
| 4 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Int | 6 pig | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 care | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 pig | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pig | cop |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 friend | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 friend | cc |
| 11 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 came | obl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 friend | advcl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 wherever | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 friend | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 friend | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 friend | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 friend | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 good | advmod |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 friend | amod |
| 21 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 care | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 friend | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | present · do-support | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | pig | pig | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | pig | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wherever=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | is a | present · perfect | pig | a good friend | me | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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