Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 77

Then said he, "How sad it is that we have no children!

Who acts: peasant, fire, we · What happens: say, be, have · To what, where: children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, fire, we), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sad	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 sad	punct
6	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 sad	advmod
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sad	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sad	cop
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 have	mark
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sad	advcl
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 children	det
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	obj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	peasant		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	fire			sad property	tree rules
3	have in a quote	present	we	no children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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