Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 6
‘Well,’ said Hans, ‘if she is not really smart, I won’t have her.’
Who acts: Hans, I · What happens: say, not be, not have · To what, where: Hans · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 smart | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 smart | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 smart | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 smart | advmod |
| 13 | really | really | ADV | _ | 14 smart | advmod |
| 14 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 have | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 smart | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 17 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 18 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 have | advmod |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 have | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a condition, not said to happen | present | Hans | smart property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not have | future | I | Hans | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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