Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 68

‘Good lack-a-day!’ said he, ‘how came I to tumble into the mill?’

Who acts: Good lack, I · What happens: say, come, tumble · To what, where: mill · 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 (Good lack, 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	_	10 said	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lack	amod
3	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 day	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 a	punct
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lack	appos
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 day	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 day	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 came	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 came	advmod
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 tumble	mark
18	tumble	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 came	advcl
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 mill	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mill	det
21	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tumble	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Good lack		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	I		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tumble	to-infinitive	I not said here	the mill	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mill=Initial_Location

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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