Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 163

I must help myself out here," said he, and groping round he found his way back to his room and went to sleep by the fire.

Who acts: I, man · What happens: help out, say, grope, find, go, sleep · To what, where: myself, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 help	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
4	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 help	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 help	compound:prt
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 help	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 found	cc
13	groping	grope	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 found	csubj
14	round	round	ADV	_	13 groping	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 found	nsubj
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 way	nmod:poss
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	obj
19	back	back	ADV	_	16 found	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 room	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 room	nmod:poss
22	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 back	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 found	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 sleep	mark
26	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 went	xcomp
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 fire	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fire	det
29	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sleep	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	help out	must	I	myself	here		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Beneficiary
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	grope in a quote	gerund				round property	vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	find in a quote	past	man	man's way			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
5	go in a quote	past	man not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here			by the fire	vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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