Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 11

‘Ah, me!’ said the cat, ‘how can one be in good spirits when one’s life is in danger?

Who acts: me, one life · What happens: say, be · To what, where: cat, one good spirits, danger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, one life), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 me	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 me	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 me	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 spirits	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 spirits	punct
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 can	advmod
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 spirits	aux
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 spirits	nummod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 spirits	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 spirits	case
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 spirits	amod
18	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	parataxis
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 danger	mark
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 life	nummod
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 one	case
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 danger	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 danger	cop
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 danger	case
25	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spirits	acl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	me	the cat		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic
2	is	can			one good spirits	tree rules
3	is	present	one life		danger	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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