Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 46

Dummling asked him what he was taking to heart so sorely, and he answered: ‘I have such a great thirst and cannot quench it; cold water I cannot stand, a barrel of wine I have just emptied, but that to me is like a drop on a hot stone!’

Who acts: Dummling, I, cold water, wine, that · What happens: ask, take, answer, have, not quench, not stand · To what, where: man, great thirst, thirst, barrel, I, hot stone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dummling, I, cold water, wine), 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	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	iobj
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 taking	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 taking	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taking	aux
7	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 asked	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 heart	mark
9	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taking	advcl
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 sorely	advmod
11	sorely	sorely	ADV	_	7 taking	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 answered	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 answered	nsubj
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 answered	ccomp
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	23 thirst	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 thirst	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 thirst	amod
23	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 quench	cc
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 quench	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 quench	advmod
27	quench	quench	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 have	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 quench	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 stand	punct
30	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 water	amod
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stand	nsubj
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 stand	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 stand	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 stand	advmod
35	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	ccomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 barrel	punct
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 barrel	det
38	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stand	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 wine	case
40	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 barrel	nmod
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 emptied	nsubj:pass
42	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 emptied	aux
43	just	just	ADV	_	44 emptied	advmod
44	emptied	empty	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 wine	acl:relcl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 drop	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 drop	cc
47	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 drop	nsubj
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 me	case
49	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 that	nmod
50	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 drop	cop
51	like	like	ADP	_	53 drop	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 drop	det
53	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stand	obl
54	on	on	ADP	_	57 stone	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 stone	det
56	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 stone	amod
57	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 drop	nmod
58	!	!	PUNCT	_	35 stand	punct
59	’	'	PUNCT	_	35 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Dummling		man			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take	past · progressive	Dummling				sorely property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past	Dummling					tree rules
4	have	present	I	such great thirst				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thirst=Patient
5	not quench	can	I not said here	thirst				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
6	not stand	can	cold water	a barrel of wine				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	empty	present · perfect · passive	wine not said here	I				vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
8	is	present	that			a hot stone	like a drop	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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