Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 4

When people are too well off they always begin to long for something new.

Who acts: people · What happens: be, begin

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 (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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 well	advmod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 well	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 well	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	9 begin	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 begin	nsubj
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 begin	advmod
9	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 well	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 long	mark
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 begin	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 something	case
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 begin	obl
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 something	amod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 well	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	people					well property	tree rules
2	begin	present	people					for something; always, long property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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