Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 114

‘Alas!’ said she, ‘I must spin this straw into gold, and I know not how.’

Who acts: door, I · What happens: say, spin, not know · To what, where: straw, gold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, I), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spin	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 spin	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 spin	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 spin	aux
11	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 straw	det
13	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spin	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	15 gold	case
15	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spin	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 know	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
19	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 know	advmod
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 know	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	door			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	spin	must	I	this straw	gold	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent straw=Theme into gold=Trajectory
3	not know	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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