Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 12
The cook, however, thought to himself: ‘If the child has the power of wishing, and I am here, he might very easily get me into trouble.’
Who acts: child, I, cook · What happens: think, have, be, get · To what, where: cook, power, me, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, I, cook), 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 cook | det |
| 2 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cook | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 thought | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 himself | case |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 thought | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 has | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 has | punct |
| 11 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 has | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thought | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 power | det |
| 16 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 wishing | case |
| 18 | wishing | wishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 power | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 here | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 here | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 here | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 here | cop |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 thought | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 get | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 get | nsubj |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 get | aux |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 easily | advmod |
| 28 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 29 get | advmod |
| 29 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 get | obj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 trouble | case |
| 32 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 get | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 get | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | participle · passive | the cook | cook | however property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | the child | the power of wishing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | might | cook | me | trouble | easily property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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