Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 10

‘Ah, no!’ answered the gardener, ‘I am no child of fortune; I am a poor soldier, who never could get enough to live upon; so I laid aside my red coat, and set to work, tilling the ground.

Who acts: I, poor soldier · What happens: answer, be, not get, live, lay, set · To what, where: gardener, child, poor soldier, enough, ground

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, poor soldier), 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	_	7 answered	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 Ah	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gardener	det
9	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 child	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 child	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 child	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 child	cop
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 child	det
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 fortune	case
17	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 child	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 soldier	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 soldier	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 soldier	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 soldier	det
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 soldier	amod
23	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 get	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 get	nsubj
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 get	advmod
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 get	aux
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 soldier	conj
29	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 get	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 live	mark
31	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 enough	advcl
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 live	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 laid	punct
34	so	so	ADV	_	36 laid	advmod
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 laid	nsubj
36	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 answered	conj
37	aside	aside	ADP	_	40 coat	case
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 coat	nmod:poss
39	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 coat	amod
40	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 laid	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 set	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 set	cc
43	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 laid	advcl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 work	mark
45	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 set	xcomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 tilling	punct
47	tilling	till	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 work	advcl
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 ground	det
49	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 tilling	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			the gardener		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent gardener=Eventuality
2	is a	present	I	no child		of fortune	tree rules
3	is a	present	I	a poor soldier			tree rules
4	not get	could	a poor soldier	enough			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enough=Stimulus
5	live	to-infinitive	a poor soldier not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	lay	past	I			aside my red coat	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	set	infinitive	I not said here				tree rules
8	work	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	till	gerund	I not said here	the ground			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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