Grimms' Fairy Tales, First Story, sentence 26
He had two tails, but he did not fare better than the first.
Who acts: knock · What happens: have, not fare · To what, where: two tails
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, First Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knock), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 tails | nummod |
| 4 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fare | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 fare | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fare | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fare | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 fare | advmod |
| 10 | fare | fare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | conj |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 fare | xcomp |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 first | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 first | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 better | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | knock | two tails | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not fare | past · do-support | knock | good 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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