Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 51

‘What does the good-for-nothing want in the parlour?’ said they; ‘they who would eat bread should first earn it; away with the kitchen-maid!’

Who acts: nothing, eyes, bread · What happens: do, want, say, eat, earn · To what, where: parlour, sun · 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 (nothing, eyes, bread), 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	_	3 does	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nothing	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nothing	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 nothing	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 nothing	case
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 for	punct
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 want	nsubj
10	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	parataxis
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 parlour	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 parlour	det
13	parlour	parlour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 want	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 eat	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 eat	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 eat	nsubj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 eat	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 eat	aux
23	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
24	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 earn	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 earn	aux
26	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 earn	advmod
27	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 eat	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 earn	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 away	punct
30	away	away	ADV	_	23 eat	parataxis
31	with	with	ADP	_	35 maid	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 maid	det
33	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 maid	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 kitchen	punct
35	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 away	obl
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 eat	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	present					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	want	present	nothing		the parlour		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	say speech: assert	past	eyes = eye				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	eat	would	eyes = eye				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	earn	should	bread	sun		first property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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