Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 79
First there will be a capital roast; then the fat will find me in goose-grease for six months; and then there are all the beautiful white feathers.
Who acts: you, fat, beautiful white feathers · What happens: be, find · To what, where: capital roast, me, goose grease
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, fat, beautiful white feathers), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 roast | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 be | expl |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 be | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 roast | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 roast | det |
| 6 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 roast | amod |
| 7 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 find | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fat | det |
| 11 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 roast | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 grease | case |
| 16 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grease | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 goose | punct |
| 18 | grease | grease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 months | case |
| 20 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 months | nummod |
| 21 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 grease | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 are | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 are | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 are | advmod |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 are | expl |
| 26 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | conj |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 31 feathers | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 feathers | det |
| 29 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 feathers | amod |
| 30 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 feathers | amod |
| 31 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 are | nsubj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 roast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | imperative | you not said here | a capital roast | first property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | future | the fat | me | goose grease for six months | then | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic | ||
| 3 | does | present | the beautiful white feathers | there | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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