Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 10

Influenced by those remarks, the bird next morning refused to bring in the wood, telling the others that he had been their servant long enough, and had been a fool into the bargain, and that it was now time to make a change, and to try some other way of arranging the work.

Who acts: Influenced next morning, bird, bargain, other way · What happens: influence, refuse, not bring, tell, be, make · To what, where: wood, others, servant, fool, bargain, time · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Influenced next morning, bird, bargain, other way), 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	Influenced	influence	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 morning	amod
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 remarks	case
3	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 remarks	det
4	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Influenced	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bird	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remarks	conj
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 morning	amod
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 refused	nsubj
10	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 bring	mark
12	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 refused	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 wood	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bring	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 telling	punct
17	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 bring	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 others	det
19	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 telling	obj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 servant	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 servant	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 servant	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 servant	cop
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 servant	nmod:poss
25	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 telling	xcomp
26	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 servant	advmod
27	enough	enough	ADV	_	26 long	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fool	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fool	cc
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 fool	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 fool	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 fool	det
33	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 refused	conj
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 bargain	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bargain	det
36	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fool	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 time	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 time	cc
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 time	mark
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 time	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 time	cop
42	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 time	advmod
43	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 refused	obl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 make	mark
45	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 time	acl
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 change	det
47	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 make	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 try	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 try	cc
50	to	to	PART	_	51 try	mark
51	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 make	conj
52	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	54 way	det
53	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 way	amod
54	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 try	obj
55	of	of	SCONJ	_	56 arranging	mark
56	arranging	arrange	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	54 way	acl
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 work	det
58	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 arranging	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	influence	participle					by that remarks and the bird	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	refuse	past	Influenced next morning					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not bring	to-infinitive	Influenced next morning not said here		the wood			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	Influenced next morning not said here	the others				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient
5	is a not said to happen	past · perfect	bird	mouse's servant			long property	tree rules
6	is a	past · perfect	Influenced next morning not said here	a fool	the bargain			tree rules
7	is a	past	bargain	time		now		tree rules
8	make	to-infinitive	Influenced next morning not said here	a change				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset change=Product
9	try	to-infinitive	Influenced next morning not said here	some other way				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
10	arrange	gerund	some other way not said here	the work				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Product

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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