Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 8

‘Why, what should make me down-hearted?’ said he; ‘I am sound in health and rich in purse, what should I care for?

Who acts: me, fellow, I · What happens: make down, heart, say, be, care · To what, where: me, sound, health, purse · 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 (me, fellow, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 make	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 make	obj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	6 make	compound:prt
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
10	hearted	heart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 make	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 sound	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 sound	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 sound	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 sound	cop
19	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 health	case
21	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sound	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rich	cc
23	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sound	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 purse	case
25	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rich	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 care	punct
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 care	obj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 care	aux
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 care	nsubj
30	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sound	parataxis
31	for	for	ADP	_	30 care	obl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make down	should		me		tree rules
2	heart	participle	me not said here			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	fellow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a	present	I	sound	health	tree rules
5	be		I not said here		purse	tree rules
6	care	should	I	sound		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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