Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 2
At last it came into the man’s head that he would not go on thus without pay any longer; so he went to his master, and said, ‘I have worked hard for you a long time, I will trust to you to give me what I deserve to have for my trouble.’
Who acts: servant, man, I, my · What happens: come, not go on, go, say, work, trust · To what, where: last, master, you, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, man, I, my), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 head | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 man | case |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 go | advmod |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | advcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 17 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 pay | case |
| 18 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 19 | any | any | ADV | _ | 20 longer | advmod |
| 20 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 go | advmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 master | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 master | nmod:poss |
| 27 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 said | cc |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 worked | punct |
| 32 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 worked | punct |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 worked | nsubj |
| 34 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 worked | aux |
| 35 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 45 trust | advcl |
| 36 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 worked | advmod |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 you | case |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 worked | obl |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 time | det |
| 40 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 time | amod |
| 41 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 worked | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 worked | punct |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 trust | nsubj |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 trust | aux |
| 45 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 said | ccomp |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 you | case |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 trust | obl |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 give | mark |
| 49 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 trust | xcomp |
| 50 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 give | iobj |
| 51 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 49 give | obj |
| 52 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 53 deserve | nsubj |
| 53 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 what | acl:relcl |
| 54 | to | to | PART | _ | 55 have | mark |
| 55 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 53 deserve | xcomp |
| 56 | for | for | ADP | _ | 58 trouble | case |
| 57 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 58 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 have | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 trust | punct |
| 60 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 trust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | servant | last | into the man's head | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into head=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | not go on | would | man | without pay; long, thus property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | man | man's master | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to master=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | servant not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | work | present · perfect | I | time | for you; hard property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for you=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | trust | future | I | you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | give | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme | ||||
| 8 | deserve | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | have | to-infinitive | I not said here | for my trouble | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 10 | trouble | my | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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