Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 2

The poor man thought he would try to better himself; so, pulling off his red coat, he became a gardener, and dug his ground well, and sowed turnips.

Who acts: poor man, man · What happens: think, try, better, pull off, become, dig · To what, where: man, red coat, gardener, ground, turnips · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (poor man, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 try	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 try	aux
7	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 better	mark
9	better	better	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 try	xcomp
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 better	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 pulling	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 pulling	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pulling	punct
14	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 thought	advcl
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 pulling	compound:prt
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 coat	nmod:poss
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 coat	amod
18	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pulling	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 became	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 became	nsubj
21	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 gardener	det
23	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 became	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dug	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dug	cc
26	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 ground	nmod:poss
28	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dug	obj
29	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 dug	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sowed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sowed	cc
32	sowed	sow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 dug	conj
33	turnips	turnip	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sowed	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the poor man			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	try	would	man			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	better not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	man		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme
4	pull off	gerund	the poor man not said here	man's red coat		vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Eventuality
5	become	past	man	a gardener		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	dig	past		man's ground	well property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=Theme
7	sow	past		turnips		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent turnip=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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