Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 25

‘If that be the case,’ said the ass, ‘we had better change our quarters, for our lodging is not the best in the world!’

Who acts: that, we, lodging · What happens: be, say, have, not be · To what, where: case, ass, better change, world · 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 (that, we, lodging), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 case	mark
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 case	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 case	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 case	det
6	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 case	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ass	det
11	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
16	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 change	amod
17	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 quarters	nmod:poss
19	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 change	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 best	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	27 best	case
22	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 lodging	nmod:poss
23	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 best	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 best	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 best	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 best	det
27	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 had	parataxis
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 world	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 world	det
30	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 best	obl
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	that	the case			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the ass			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ass=Topic
3	have	past	we	better change			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Patient
4	not is	present	our lodging		the world	good property	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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