Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 49
‘I feel very unhappy about it,’ said the husband, ‘in case it should not be all right, and he ought to have said goodbye to me.’
Who acts: I, husband, goodbye · What happens: feel, say, not be · To what, where: right said goodbye · 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, husband, goodbye), 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 | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 unhappy | advmod |
| 5 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feel | xcomp |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 unhappy | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 husband | det |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 goodbye | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ‘ | CCONJ | _ | 30 goodbye | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 22 right | case |
| 16 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 in | fixed |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 right | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 right | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 right | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 right | cop |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 right | advmod |
| 22 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 goodbye | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 ought | nsubj |
| 26 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 said | aux |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 said | mark |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 said | aux |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 goodbye | amod |
| 30 | goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 me | case |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 goodbye | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | I | unhappy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the husband | right said goodbye to me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not is | should | goodbye | all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | ought · perfect | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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