Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 13

‘Ah!’ said he, ‘I have this load to carry: to be sure it is silver, but it is so heavy that I can’t hold up my head, and you must know it hurts my shoulder sadly.’

Who acts: horseman, I, load, you · What happens: say, have, carry, be, not hold up, know · To what, where: load, head, shoulder · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horseman, I, load, you), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 load	det
12	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 carry	mark
14	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 have	xcomp
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 sure	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	18 sure	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 sure	cop
18	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 have	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 silver	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 silver	cop
21	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sure	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 heavy	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 heavy	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 heavy	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 heavy	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 heavy	advmod
27	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sure	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 hold	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 hold	nsubj
30	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 hold	aux
31	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 hold	advmod
32	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 heavy	advcl
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 hold	compound:prt
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 head	nmod:poss
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hold	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 know	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 know	cc
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 know	nsubj
39	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 know	aux
40	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sure	conj
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 hurts	nsubj
42	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 know	ccomp
43	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 shoulder	nmod:poss
44	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 hurts	obj
45	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	42 hurts	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	horseman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	I	this load		tree rules
3	carry	to-infinitive	this load not said here			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	to-infinitive			sure property	tree rules
5	is	present	load		silver property	tree rules
6	is	present	load		heavy property	tree rules
7	not hold up	can	I	my head		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot head=Theme
8	know	must	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	hurt	present	load	my shoulder	sadly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shoulder=Patient

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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