Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 12

Because I am beginning to grow old, and had rather lie at my ease by the fire than run about the house after the mice, my mistress laid hold of me, and was going to drown me; and though I have been lucky enough to get away from her, I do not know what I am to live upon.’

Who acts: I, mistress · What happens: begin, grow, lie, run, lay, go · To what, where: ease, hold, me · 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 (I, mistress), 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	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 beginning	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 beginning	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 beginning	aux
4	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 lie	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 grow	mark
6	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 beginning	xcomp
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grow	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lie	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lie	cc
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lie	aux
11	rather	rather	ADV	_	12 lie	advmod
12	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 ease	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 ease	nmod:poss
15	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lie	obl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 fire	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fire	det
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lie	obl
19	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 run	mark
20	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 lie	advcl
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 house	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 house	det
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 run	obl
24	after	after	ADP	_	26 mice	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mice	det
26	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 run	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 laid	punct
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mistress	nmod:poss
29	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 laid	nsubj
30	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 run	conj
31	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 laid	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 hold	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 going	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 going	cc
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 going	aux
37	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 laid	advcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 drown	mark
39	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 going	xcomp
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 drown	obj
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 lucky	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 lucky	cc
43	though	though	SCONJ	_	47 lucky	mark
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 lucky	nsubj
45	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 lucky	aux
46	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 lucky	cop
47	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lie	parataxis
48	enough	enough	ADV	_	47 lucky	advmod
49	to	to	PART	_	50 get	mark
50	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 lucky	advcl
51	away	away	ADV	_	50 get	advmod
52	from	from	ADP	_	53 her	case
53	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 get	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 know	punct
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 know	nsubj
56	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 know	aux
57	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	58 know	advmod
58	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 lie	parataxis
59	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	58 know	ccomp
60	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	61 am	nsubj
61	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 what	cop
62	to	to	PART	_	63 live	mark
63	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 am	xcomp
64	upon	upon	ADP	_	63 live	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 lie	punct
66	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	present · progressive	I					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	grow	to-infinitive	I not said here				old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lie	past			my ease		by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at ease=Location
4	run	infinitive				after the mice	about the house	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about house=Trajectory
5	lay	past	my mistress	hold of me				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
6	go	past · progressive	my mistress not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	drown	to-infinitive	my mistress not said here	me				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
8	is	present · perfect	I				enough, lucky property	tree rules
9	get away	to-infinitive	I not said here				from mistress; away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from she=Source
10	not know	present · do-support	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
11	is a	present						tree rules
12	live	to-infinitive						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
13	hold			me				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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