Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes, sentence 58

"Will you have better things than we?" cried the envious mother; "then you shall lose the chance"; and so saying, she took a carving-knife and killed the goat dead.

Who acts: you, envious mother, mother · What happens: have, cry, lose, say, take, kill · To what, where: better things, chance, carving knife, goat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, envious mother, mother), 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 have	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cried	ccomp
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 we	case
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 things	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mother	det
13	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mother	amod
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 lose	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 lose	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 lose	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 lose	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 lose	aux
20	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cried	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 chance	det
22	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lose	obj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 lose	punct
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 saying	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 saying	cc
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 saying	advmod
27	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 cried	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 took	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 took	nsubj
30	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 saying	ccomp
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 knife	det
32	carving	carving	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 knife	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 carving	punct
34	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 took	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 killed	cc
36	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 took	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 goat	det
38	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 killed	obj
39	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 goat	amod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	future	you	better things		than we	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	the envious mother				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lose in a quote	shall	you	the chance	then		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	gerund	the envious mother not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	take	past	mother	a carving knife			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
6	kill	past	mother not said here	the goat			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme

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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