Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 79
And thus she thought she should at least get rid of her.
Who acts: ASHPUTTEL · What happens: think, get · To what, where: least · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ASHPUTTEL), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 thought | cc |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 thought | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 get | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | aux |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 least | case |
| 8 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 get | obl |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 get | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rid | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | ASHPUTTEL | thus property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | should | ASHPUTTEL | least | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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