Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 20

‘Oh, no!’ said the young man; ‘sitting cross-legged from morning to night, working backwards and forwards with a needle and goose, will never suit me.’

Who acts: young man · What happens: say, cross-legg, work, not suit · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	2 Oh	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 cross-legged	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 cross-legged	punct
13	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 cross-legged	aux:pass
14	cross-legged	cross-legg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 morning	case
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cross-legged	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 night	case
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cross-legged	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 working	punct
20	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 cross-legged	conj
21	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	20 working	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 forwards	cc
23	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	21 backwards	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 needle	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 needle	det
26	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 working	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 goose	cc
28	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 needle	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 suit	punct
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 suit	aux
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 suit	advmod
32	suit	suit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cross-legged	conj
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 suit	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the young man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	cross-legg	gerund · passive	the young man not said here		morning; night		tree rules
3	work	gerund	the young man not said here			with a needle and goose; backwards property	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with needle=Co-Agent
4	not suit	future	the young man not said here	me			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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