Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 50

He thought to himself, ‘If the giant sees me going in, my life will not be worth much.’

Who acts: man, giant, life · What happens: think, see, go in, not be · To what, where: man, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, giant, life), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 himself	case
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 thought	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
7	If	if	SCONJ	_	10 sees	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sees	nsubj
10	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 going	advcl
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 sees	obj
12	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 thought	ccomp
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 going	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 worth	punct
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 life	nmod:poss
16	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 worth	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 worth	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 worth	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 worth	cop
20	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 going	parataxis
21	much	much	ADV	_	20 worth	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	man		man		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	see a condition, not said to happen	present	the giant	me			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
3	go in	gerund					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not is	future	my life			worth property	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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