Grimms' Fairy Tales, Second Story, sentence 12
‘If she’s in want of a husband now, Then will it please her to step below?’
Who acts: want · What happens: please, step, want · To what, where: Mrs, husband
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Second Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (want), 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 | _ | 15 please | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 ’s | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ’s | nsubj |
| 4 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 please | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 want | case |
| 6 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ’s | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 husband | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 husband | det |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 want | nmod |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 ’s | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ’s | punct |
| 12 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 please | advmod |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 please | aux |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 please | nsubj |
| 15 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 please | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 step | mark |
| 18 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 please | advcl |
| 19 | below | below | ADV | _ | 18 step | advmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 please | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 please | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please | future | want | Mrs | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | step | to-infinitive | want not said here | below property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | want | a husband | nom want «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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