Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 40
At last he thought to himself, ‘I can eat salad, it will refresh and strengthen me.’
Who acts: cloud, I, salad · What happens: think, eat, refresh, strengthen · To what, where: cloud, last, salad, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloud, I, salad), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 himself | case |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 thought | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 eat | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 eat | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 eat | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 eat | aux |
| 11 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | salad | salad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eat | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 refresh | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 refresh | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 refresh | aux |
| 16 | refresh | refresh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 eat | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 strengthen | cc |
| 18 | strengthen | strengthen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 refresh | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 strengthen | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 eat | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | cloud | cloud | last | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat | can | I | salad | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salad=Patient | ||||
| 3 | refresh | future | salad | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | strengthen | infinitive | salad not said here | me | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=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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