Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 71

‘It is rather dark,’ said he; ‘they forgot to build windows in this room to let the sun in; a candle would be no bad thing.’

Who acts: stomach, lack, cows, candle · What happens: be, say, forget, not build, let in · To what, where: windows, room, sun, bad thing · 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 (stomach, lack, cows, candle), 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 dark	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dark	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	cop
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 dark	advmod
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	conj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 forgot	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 forgot	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 forgot	nsubj
13	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 build	mark
15	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 forgot	xcomp
16	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 build	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 room	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 room	det
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 build	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 let	mark
21	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 build	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sun	det
23	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 let	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	21 let	compound:prt
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 thing	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 candle	det
27	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 thing	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 thing	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 thing	cop
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 thing	det
31	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 thing	amod
32	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dark	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	stomach			dark property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	lack				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	forget	past	cows = cow				tree rules
4	not build	to-infinitive	cows = cow not said here	windows	this room		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset window=Product
5	let in	to-infinitive	cows = cow not said here	the sun			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Theme
6	is a	would	a candle	no bad thing			tree rules

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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