Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 26
‘Besides,’ added the dog, ‘I should not be the worse for a bone or two, or a bit of meat.’
Who acts: I · What happens: add, not be · To what, where: dog
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), 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 added | punct |
| 2 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 5 added | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Besides | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 added | punct |
| 5 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dog | det |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 added | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 worse | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 worse | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 worse | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 worse | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 worse | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 worse | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 worse | det |
| 15 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 added | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 bone | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bone | det |
| 18 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 worse | obl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 two | cc |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 bone | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bit | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 bit | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bit | det |
| 24 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bone | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 meat | case |
| 26 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bit | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 added | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | the dog | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not is | should | I | for a bone or a bit of meat; bad 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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