Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 5
‘Alas!’ said the dog, ‘my master was going to knock me on the head, because I am old and weak, and can no longer make myself useful to him in hunting; so I ran away; but what can I do to earn my livelihood?’
Who acts: master, I · What happens: say, go, knock, be, make, run away · To what, where: dog, me, head, myself, livelihood · 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 (master, 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | 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 dog | det |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 going | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 going | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 master | nmod:poss |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 going | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | aux |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 knock | mark |
| 15 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 going | xcomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 knock | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 head | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 head | det |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knock | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 old | punct |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 old | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 old | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 old | cop |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 going | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 weak | cc |
| 26 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 old | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 make | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 make | cc |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 make | aux |
| 30 | no | no | ADV | _ | 31 longer | advmod |
| 31 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 make | advmod |
| 32 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 33 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 make | obj |
| 34 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 make | xcomp |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 useful | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 hunting | case |
| 38 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 useful | obl |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 ran | punct |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 ran | advmod |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 ran | nsubj |
| 42 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 43 | away | away | ADV | _ | 42 ran | advmod |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 do | punct |
| 45 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 49 do | cc |
| 46 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 49 do | obj |
| 47 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 do | aux |
| 48 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 do | nsubj |
| 49 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 earn | mark |
| 51 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 do | advcl |
| 52 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 livelihood | nmod:poss |
| 53 | livelihood | livelihood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 earn | obj |
| 54 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 49 do | punct |
| 55 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 49 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the dog | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | my master | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | knock | to-infinitive | my master not said here | me | the head | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme on head=Destination | |||
| 4 | is | present | I | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | I not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | make | can | myself | long, useful property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset myself=Product | ||||
| 7 | run away | past | I | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | do | can | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 9 | earn | to-infinitive | I not said here | my livelihood | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent livelihood=Theme |
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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