Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Hans, sentence 11
‘I bring nothing, I want to have something given me.’
Who acts: I · What happens: bring, want, have, give · To what, where: nothing, something, me
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 bring | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 want | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 want | nsubj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bring | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 want | xcomp |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 have | obj |
| 11 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 something | acl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 given | iobj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | I | nothing | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 4 | give | participle | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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