Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 18

I am quite sorry to see them run about as they do; and indeed it is not very decent, for they have nothing upon their backs to keep off the cold.

Who acts: I, wights, turn · What happens: be, see, run about, do, not be, have · To what, where: wights, nothing, cold

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Elves and the Shoemaker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wights, turn), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sorry	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sorry	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 sorry	advmod
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sorry	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 see	xcomp
9	about	about	ADV	_	12 do	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 do	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 run	advcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 decent	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 decent	cc
15	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	20 decent	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 decent	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 decent	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 decent	advmod
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 decent	advmod
20	decent	decent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sorry	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 have	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sorry	conj
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 have	obj
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 backs	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 backs	nmod:poss
28	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 nothing	nmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 keep	mark
30	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 nothing	acl
31	off	off	ADP	_	30 keep	compound:prt
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cold	det
33	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 keep	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sorry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		sorry property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	I not said here	wights = wight		tree rules
3	run about	infinitive	wights = wight not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	present	wights = wight		about property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not is	present	turn		decent, indeed property	tree rules
6	have	present	wights = wight	nothing	upon wights's backs	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
7	keep off	to-infinitive	wights = wight not said here	the cold		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=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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