Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 51

My stomach remains empty, and I must tie myself up if I am not to die of hunger.’

Who acts: stomach, I · What happens: remain, tie up, not die · To what, where: myself

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 (stomach, I), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 stomach	nmod:poss
2	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remains	nsubj
3	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 remains	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tie	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tie	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tie	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tie	aux
9	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 remains	conj
10	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 tie	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 tie	compound:prt
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 die	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 die	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 die	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 die	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 die	mark
17	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tie	advcl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 hunger	case
19	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 die	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remains	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 remains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remain	present	My stomach		empty property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tie up	must	I	myself		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient
3	not die a condition, not said to happen	present	I		of hunger	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer

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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