Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 118
‘It is as safe as if you had it already,’ said Iron Hans.
Who acts: apple, you, Iron Hans · What happens: be, have, say · To what, where: apple · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apple, you, Iron Hans), 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 | _ | 5 safe | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 safe | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 safe | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 safe | advmod |
| 5 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 had | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 had | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 safe | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | obj |
| 11 | already | already | ADV | _ | 9 had | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 safe | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 safe | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Hans | compound |
| 16 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | apple | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | you | apple | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Iron Hans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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