Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Hans, sentence 26
You should have stuck the needle in your sleeve.’
Who acts: You · What happens: stick · To what, where: needle, sleeve
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 (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 stuck | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stuck | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stuck | aux |
| 4 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 needle | det |
| 6 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stuck | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sleeve | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sleeve | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stuck | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stuck | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | should · perfect | You | the needle | your sleeve | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent needle=Theme in sleeve=Destination |
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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