Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 96
‘I want a strong steed, for I am going to the wars.’
Who acts: I · What happens: want, go · To what, where: strong steed, wars
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 | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 steed | det |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 steed | amod |
| 6 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 want | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 going | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 going | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 going | aux |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 want | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 wars | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wars | det |
| 14 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 going | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | a strong steed | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot steed=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | I | the wars | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location |
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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