Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 48
However, I’ll try and set up a trade in pots and pans, and you shall stand in the market and sell them.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: try, set up, stand, sell · To what, where: trade, pots, market, pans
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 try | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 try | nsubj |
| 4 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 try | aux |
| 5 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 set | cc |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 try | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 set | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 trade | det |
| 10 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 pots | case |
| 12 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 set | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pans | cc |
| 14 | pans | pan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pots | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stand | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stand | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 stand | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 stand | aux |
| 19 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 try | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 market | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 market | det |
| 22 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stand | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sell | cc |
| 24 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 stand | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sell | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | future | I | however property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | set up | infinitive | I not said here | a trade | pots and pans | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trade=Theme in pot=Destination | |||
| 3 | stand | shall | you | the market | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in market=Location | ||||
| 4 | sell | infinitive | you not said here | pans = pan | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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