Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 50
But her husband did not care for that, and said she must work, if she did not wish to die of hunger.
Who acts: husband, bargain · What happens: not care, say, work, not wish, die · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (husband, bargain), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 care | cc |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 husband | nmod:poss |
| 3 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 care | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 care | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 care | advmod |
| 6 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 care | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 care | conj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 work | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 work | aux |
| 14 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wish | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 wish | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wish | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wish | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 wish | advmod |
| 20 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 work | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 die | mark |
| 22 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wish | xcomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 hunger | case |
| 24 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 die | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | past · do-support | bargain's husband | for that | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | bargain's husband not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | work | must | bargain | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not wish a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | bargain | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | die not said to happen | to-infinitive | bargain not said here | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer |
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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