Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 140
‘I well see,’ said the king, ‘that I owe my thanks to you; can I do anything to please you?’
Who acts: I · What happens: see, say, owe, do, please · To what, where: king, thanks, you, anything · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 see | advmod |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 owe | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 owe | nsubj |
| 14 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | advcl |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 thanks | nmod:poss |
| 16 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 owe | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 thanks | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 owe | punct |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 23 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 do | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 please | mark |
| 25 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 anything | acl |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 please | obj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | owe | present | I | my thanks | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme to you=Goal | |||
| 4 | do | can | I | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | please | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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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