Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 51

"Stupid, inquisitive goose!" replied the dwarf; "I meant to split the trunk, so that I could chop it up for kitchen sticks; big logs would burn up the small quantity of food we cook, for people like us do not consume great heaps of food, as you heavy, greedy folk do.

Who acts: Stupid inquisitive goose, big logs, we, people, heavy greedy folk · What happens: reply, mean, split, chop up, burn up, cook · To what, where: dwarf, trunk, small quantity, food, great heaps · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» 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 (Stupid inquisitive goose, big logs, we, people), 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 goose	punct
2	Stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 goose	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Stupid	punct
4	inquisitive	inquisitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 goose	amod
5	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replied	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 goose	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 goose	punct
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dwarf	det
10	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replied	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 meant	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 meant	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 meant	nsubj
14	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 replied	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 split	mark
16	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 meant	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trunk	det
18	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 split	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 chop	punct
20	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 chop	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 chop	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 chop	aux
24	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 split	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 chop	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 chop	compound:prt
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 sticks	case
28	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sticks	compound
29	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 chop	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 burn	punct
31	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 logs	amod
32	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 burn	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 burn	aux
34	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 replied	parataxis
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 burn	compound:prt
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 quantity	det
37	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 quantity	amod
38	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 burn	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 food	case
40	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 quantity	nmod
41	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 cook	nsubj
42	cook	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 food	acl:relcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 consume	punct
44	for	for	SCONJ	_	50 consume	mark
45	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 consume	nsubj
46	like	like	ADP	_	47 us	case
47	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 people	nmod
48	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 consume	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 consume	advmod
50	consume	consume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 burn	parataxis
51	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 heaps	amod
52	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 consume	obj
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 food	case
54	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 heaps	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 folk	punct
56	as	as	ADP	_	61 folk	case
57	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	61 folk	nsubj
58	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 folk	amod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 heavy	punct
60	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 folk	amod
61	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 consume	parataxis
62	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 folk	acl:relcl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Stupid inquisitive goose	the dwarf		tree rules
2	mean in a quote	past	Stupid inquisitive goose = goose			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	split not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Stupid inquisitive goose = goose not said here	the trunk		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient
4	chop up in a quote	could	Stupid inquisitive goose = goose	trunk	for kitchen sticks	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	burn up in a quote	would	big logs	the small quantity of food		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme
6	cook in a quote	present	we	food not said here		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient
7	not consume in a quote	present · do-support	people like us	great heaps of food		vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Asset
8	do in a quote	present	heavy greedy folk not said here			vn act-114-1 «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: «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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