Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 7
The huntsman thanked her, and thought to himself, ‘If all this does happen, it will be a fine thing for me.’
Who acts: huntsman, cloak · What happens: thank, think, happen, be · To what, where: heart, huntsman, fine thing
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 (huntsman, cloak), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 huntsman | det |
| 2 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thanked | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thought | cc |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 thanked | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 himself | case |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 thought | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 happen | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 happen | punct |
| 12 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 happen | mark |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 happen | det:predet |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 all | obj |
| 15 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 happen | aux |
| 16 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 thing | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 thing | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 thing | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 thing | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 thing | det |
| 22 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 thing | amod |
| 23 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 happen | parataxis |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 thing | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 happen | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the huntsman | heart | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | participle | the huntsman not said here | huntsman | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | happen a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is a | future | cloak | a fine thing | for me | 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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