Grimms' Fairy Tales, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts, sentence 18

‘Bless me!’ said he, ‘all the world seems to have a design against my head this morning’: and so saying, he threw himself sulkily into his easy chair; but, oh dear! the needle ran into him; and this time the pain was not in his head.

Who acts: landlord, world, needle, time · What happens: bless, say, seem, have, throw, run · To what, where: me, design, landlord, easy chair, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landlord, world, needle, time), 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	_	2 Bless	punct
2	Bless	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Bless	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Bless	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Bless	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seems	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 seems	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 world	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seems	nsubj
13	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 have	mark
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seems	xcomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 design	det
17	design	design	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	against	against	ADP	_	20 head	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 head	nmod:poss
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obl
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 morning	det
22	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obl:unmarked
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 have	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	6 said	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 threw	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 threw	nsubj
30	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 saying	ccomp
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 threw	obj
32	sulkily	sulkily	ADV	_	30 threw	advmod
33	into	into	ADP	_	36 chair	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 chair	nmod:poss
35	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 chair	amod
36	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 threw	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 dear	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 dear	discourse
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 but	punct
40	oh	oh	INTJ	_	41 dear	discourse
41	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	parataxis
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	41 dear	punct
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 needle	det
44	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 ran	nsubj
45	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 dear	parataxis
46	into	into	ADP	_	47 him	case
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 ran	obl
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 head	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 head	cc
50	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 time	det
51	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 head	nsubj
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 pain	det
53	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 head	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 head	cop
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	58 head	advmod
56	in	in	ADP	_	58 head	case
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 head	nmod:poss
58	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	parataxis
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bless	infinitive		me				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	landlord					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	seem	present	all world					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	have	to-infinitive	all world not said here	a design		morning	against my head	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent design=Patient
5	say speech: assert	gerund	landlord not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	throw	past	landlord	landlord			into landlord's easy chair result; sulkily property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer himself=Theme into chair=Result
7	run	past	the needle				into landlord	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into he=Result
8	not is	past	this time		landlord's head			tree rules

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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