Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 33
‘If only I can prevent anyone knowing that I did it,’ she thought.
Who acts: I, thought · What happens: prevent, know, do, think · To what, where: anyone, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thought), 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 | _ | 6 prevent | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 only | mark |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 prevent | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 prevent | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 prevent | aux |
| 6 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 prevent | obj |
| 8 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 anyone | acl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 did | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 knowing | ccomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 did | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | SCONJ | _ | 16 thought | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 prevent | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 prevent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevent | can | I | anyone | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer anyone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | do | past | I | head | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | thought | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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