Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 2

‘How lonely it is, wife,’ said he, as he puffed out a long curl of smoke, ‘for you and me to sit here by ourselves, without any children to play about and amuse us while other people seem so happy and merry with their children!’

Who acts: pipe, woodman, you, children, other people · What happens: be, say, puff out, sit, play about, amuse · To what, where: long curl, us · 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 (pipe, woodman, you, children), 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	_	3 lonely	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 lonely	advmod
3	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lonely	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lonely	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wife	punct
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lonely	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lonely	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 lonely	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 puffed	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 puffed	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 puffed	nsubj
15	puffed	puff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 puffed	compound:prt
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 curl	det
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 curl	amod
19	curl	curl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 puffed	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 smoke	case
21	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 curl	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sit	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 sit	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 sit	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 sit	nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 me	cc
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 you	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 sit	mark
29	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 puffed	conj
30	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 sit	advmod
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 ourselves	case
32	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 sit	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 play	punct
34	without	without	SCONJ	_	38 play	mark
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 children	det
36	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 play	nsubj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 play	mark
38	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 sit	parataxis
39	about	about	ADV	_	38 play	advmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 amuse	cc
41	amuse	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 play	conj
42	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 amuse	obj
43	while	while	SCONJ	_	46 seem	mark
44	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 people	amod
45	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 seem	nsubj
46	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 play	advcl
47	so	so	ADV	_	48 happy	advmod
48	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 seem	xcomp
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 merry	cc
50	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 happy	conj
51	with	with	ADP	_	53 children	case
52	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 children	nmod:poss
53	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 happy	obl
54	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
55	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	pipe			lonely property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	woodman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	puff out	past	woodman	a long curl of smoke			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location curl=Source
4	sit	to-infinitive	you		here	by ourselves	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by ourselves=Location
5	play about	to-infinitive	any children			about property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	amuse	present	any children not said here	us			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer
7	seem	present	other people			happy property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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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