Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 57
You are already two too many for me; can you not think of something better?’
Who acts: You · What happens: be, not think
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 many | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 many | cop |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 6 many | advmod |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 many | nummod |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 many | advmod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 many | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 think | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 think | nsubj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 think | advmod |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 many | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 something | case |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 think | obl |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 something | amod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 many | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 many | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | for me; many property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | can | you | of something | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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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