Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 9
If so, you are a true child of fortune.’
Who acts: you · What happens: be · To what, where: true child
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 2 so | mark |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 so | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 child | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 child | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 child | amod |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 so | parataxis |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fortune | case |
| 10 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 child | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 child | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 child | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | a true child | of fortune | tree rules |
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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