Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 18

The servant, however, thought he intended by that to say: ‘That is the first thief,’ and as he actually was so, he was terrified, and said to his comrade outside: ‘The doctor knows all: we shall fare ill, he said I was the first.’

Who acts: servant, That, doctor, we, I · What happens: think, intend, say, be, know, fare · To what, where: first thief, comrade, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Doctor Knowall. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, That, doctor, we), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 servant	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 thought	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 intended	nsubj
8	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 thought	ccomp
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 intended	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 say	mark
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 intended	advcl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 thief	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 thief	punct
15	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 thief	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 thief	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 thief	det
18	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 thief	amod
19	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thief	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 thief	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 terrified	cc
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 was	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 was	nsubj
25	actually	actually	ADV	_	26 was	advmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 terrified	cop
27	so	so	ADV	_	26 was	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 was	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 terrified	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 terrified	cop
31	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 thief	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	parataxis
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 comrade	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 comrade	nmod:poss
37	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 said	obl
38	outside	outside	ADV	_	37 comrade	advmod
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	43 knows	punct
40	‘	'	PUNCT	_	43 knows	punct
41	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 doctor	det
42	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 knows	nsubj
43	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 said	conj
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 knows	obj
45	:	:	PUNCT	_	48 fare	punct
46	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 fare	nsubj
47	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 fare	aux
48	fare	fare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 knows	ccomp
49	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 fare	xcomp
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 said	punct
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 said	nsubj
52	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 fare	conj
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 first	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 first	cop
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 first	det
56	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	52 said	ccomp
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 fare	punct
58	’	'	PUNCT	_	48 fare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the servant			however property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	intend	participle	servant			by that	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	servant not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	That	the first thief			tree rules
5	is	past	servant			terrified property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past			servant's comrade		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to comrade=Recipient
7	know	present	the doctor	all			tree rules
8	fare	shall	we			ill property	tree rules
9	say speech: assert	past	servant				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
10	is	past	I			first 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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