Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 31

‘Out with you, you idle, good-for-nothing creatures!’ cried they; ‘we cannot find food for you any longer; you are big enough, and can provide for yourselves.’

Who acts: you, we · What happens: cry, not find, be, provide · To what, where: creatures, food

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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	_	4 you	punct
2	Out	out	ADV	_	4 you	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 you	case
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 cried	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 you	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 you	parataxis
7	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 you	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 idle	punct
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 idle	conj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 good	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 creatures	case
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 for	punct
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 creatures	compound
14	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 good	obl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 you	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cried	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 find	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 find	punct
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 find	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 find	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 find	advmod
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cried	conj
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 find	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 find	obl
28	any	any	ADV	_	29 longer	advmod
29	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 find	advmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 big	punct
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 big	nsubj
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 big	cop
33	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cried	parataxis
34	enough	enough	ADV	_	33 big	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 provide	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 provide	cc
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 provide	aux
38	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 big	conj
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 yourselves	case
40	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 provide	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	you	creatures = creature		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
2	not find	can	we	food	for you; long property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Theme for you=Beneficiary
3	is	present	you		big, enough property	tree rules
4	provide	can	you not said here		for yourselves	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for yourselves=Recipient

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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