Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 17

‘Why,’ said the cock, ‘I was just now saying that we should have fine weather for our washing-day, and yet my mistress and the cook don’t thank me for my pains, but threaten to cut off my head tomorrow, and make broth of me for the guests that are coming on Sunday!’

Who acts: I, we, mistress, guests, my · What happens: say, be, have, not thank, threaten, cut off · To what, where: cock, fine weather, me, head, broth · 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, we, mistress, guests), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cock	det
7	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 saying	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saying	cop
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 saying	advmod
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 saying	advmod
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 have	mark
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 saying	ccomp
19	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 weather	amod
20	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	25 day	case
22	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 day	nmod:poss
23	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 day	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 washing	punct
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 thank	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 thank	cc
28	yet	yet	ADV	_	30 mistress	advmod
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mistress	nmod:poss
30	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 thank	nsubj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cook	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cook	det
33	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mistress	conj
34	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 thank	aux
35	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 thank	advmod
36	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 thank	obj
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 pains	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 pains	nmod:poss
40	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 thank	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 threaten	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 threaten	cc
43	threaten	threaten	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	36 thank	parataxis
44	to	to	PART	_	45 cut	mark
45	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 threaten	xcomp
46	off	off	ADP	_	45 cut	compound:prt
47	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 head	nmod:poss
48	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 cut	obj
49	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 cut	obl:unmarked
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 make	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 make	cc
52	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	43 threaten	conj
53	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 make	obj
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 me	case
55	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 broth	nmod
56	for	for	ADP	_	58 guests	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 guests	det
58	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 make	obl
59	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	61 coming	nsubj
60	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 coming	aux
61	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	58 guests	acl:relcl
62	on	on	ADP	_	63 Sunday	case
63	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 coming	obl
64	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 thank	punct
65	’	'	PUNCT	_	36 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the cock				tree rules
2	be speech: assert	past	I			now	say property	tree rules
3	have	should	we	fine weather		day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Patient
4	not thank speech: thank	present · do-support	my mistress and the cook		me		for my pains	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Theme for pain=Attribute
5	threaten	infinitive						tree rules
6	cut off not said to happen	to-infinitive		my head		tomorrow		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
7	make	infinitive		broth of me			for the guests	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent broth=Material for guest=Beneficiary
8	come	present · progressive	the guests			sunday		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	pain		my					nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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