Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 4

The poor fellow thought it was a great deal of money to have, and said to himself, ‘Why should I work hard, and live here on bad fare any longer?

Who acts: poor fellow, penny, I · What happens: think, be, have, say, work, live · To what, where: great deal, fellow, bad fare · 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 (poor fellow, penny, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fellow	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fellow	amod
3	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 deal	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 deal	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 deal	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deal	amod
9	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 money	case
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deal	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 have	mark
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 deal	acl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 work	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 work	punct
21	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	24 work	advmod
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 work	aux
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 work	nsubj
24	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
25	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 work	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 live	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 live	cc
28	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 work	conj
29	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 live	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 fare	case
31	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fare	amod
32	fare	fare	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 live	obl
33	any	any	ADV	_	34 longer	advmod
34	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 live	advmod
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the poor fellow					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	penny	a great deal			of money	tree rules
3	have	to-infinitive	the poor fellow not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the poor fellow not said here		fellow			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic
5	work	should	I				hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	live	infinitive	I not said here			bad fare; here	long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fare=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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