Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 33

‘Yes,’ said the ass, ‘if we could only get in’; so they consulted together how they should contrive to get the robbers out; and at last they hit upon a plan.

Who acts: we, companions · What happens: say, get in, consult, contrive, get out, hit · To what, where: ass, robbers · 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 (we, companions), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	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 ass	det
7	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 get	mark
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 get	aux
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
15	in	in	ADV	_	14 get	advmod
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 consulted	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 consulted	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 consulted	nsubj
20	consulted	consult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
21	together	together	ADV	_	20 consulted	advmod
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 contrive	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 contrive	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 contrive	aux
25	contrive	contrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 consulted	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 get	mark
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 contrive	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 robbers	det
29	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 get	obj
30	out	out	ADP	_	27 get	compound:prt
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 hit	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 hit	cc
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 last	case
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hit	obl
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 hit	nsubj
36	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
37	upon	upon	ADP	_	39 plan	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 plan	det
39	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hit	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the ass		tree rules
2	get in a condition, not said to happen	could	we			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	consult	past	companions = companion		together property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	contrive	should	companions = companion			tree rules
5	get out	to-infinitive	companions = companion not said here	the robbers		tree rules
6	hit	past	companions = companion		upon a plan; at last	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at last=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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