Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 41

So saying, he trotted off on the student’s nag, and left the poor fellow to gather wisdom till somebody should come and let him down.

Who acts: rest, somebody · What happens: say, trot off, leave, gather, come, let down · To what, where: nag, poor fellow, wisdom, rest · 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 (rest, somebody), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 trotted	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 trotted	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 trotted	nsubj
5	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 trotted	compound:prt
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 nag	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 student	det
9	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nag	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 student	case
11	nag	nag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trotted	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 left	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 left	cc
14	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trotted	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fellow	det
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fellow	amod
17	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 left	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 gather	mark
19	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 left	advcl
20	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gather	obj
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	24 come	mark
22	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 come	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 gather	advcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 let	cc
26	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 come	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	down	down	ADP	_	26 let	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 trotted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	rest not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	trot off	past	rest		the student's nag	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on nag=Trajectory
3	leave	past	rest not said here	the poor fellow		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme
4	gather	to-infinitive	rest not said here	wisdom		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Theme
5	come	should	somebody			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	let down	infinitive	somebody not said here	rest		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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