Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson, sentence 9

‘I am making a little trough,’ answered the child, ‘for father and mother to eat out of when I am big.’

Who acts: I, making · What happens: make, answer, eat out, be · To what, where: little trough, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Old Man and His Grandson. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, making), 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	_	4 making	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 making	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 making	aux
4	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 answered	csubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trough	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trough	amod
7	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 making	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 making	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 child	det
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 father	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 father	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 father	case
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 mother	cc
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 father	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 eat	mark
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 mother	acl
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 eat	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	21 out	fixed
23	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 big	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 big	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 big	cop
26	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 eat	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 father	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 father	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	present · progressive	I	a little trough			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trough=Product
2	answer speech: assert	past	making		the child		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent child=Eventuality
3	eat out	to-infinitive	making not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	I			big property	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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