Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 27

‘Alas! dear sir,’ said she, ‘yonder lies the granite rock where all the costly diamonds grow, and I want so much to go there, that whenever I think of it I cannot help being sorrowful, for who can reach it? only the birds and the flies--man cannot.’

Who acts: woman, I, costly diamonds · What happens: say, lie, grow, want, go, think · To what, where: granite rock, much, rock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, I, costly diamonds), 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 sir	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	5 sir	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sir	amod
5	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sir	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 sir	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lies	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 lies	punct
12	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	13 lies	advmod
13	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 want	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rock	det
15	granite	granite	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rock	compound
16	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lies	obj
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 grow	advmod
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 diamonds	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 diamonds	det
20	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 diamonds	amod
21	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 grow	nsubj
22	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 rock	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 want	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 want	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 want	nsubj
26	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 want	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 go	mark
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 much	acl
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 go	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 whenever	punct
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 whenever	nsubj
34	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 said	parataxis
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 think	nsubj
36	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 whenever	advcl:relcl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 think	obl
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 help	nsubj
40	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 help	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 help	advmod
42	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 think	parataxis
43	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 sorrowful	cop
44	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 help	xcomp
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 reach	punct
46	for	for	SCONJ	_	49 reach	mark
47	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 reach	nsubj
48	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 reach	aux
49	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 help	conj
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 reach	obj
51	?	?	PUNCT	_	49 reach	punct
52	only	only	ADV	_	54 birds	advmod
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 birds	det
54	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 reach	obl
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 flies	cc
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 flies	det
57	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 birds	conj
58	--	--	PUNCT	_	60 can	punct
59	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 can	nsubj
60	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 birds	acl:relcl
61	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	60 can	advmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
63	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lie	present	I not said here	the granite rock		yonder property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=Theme
3	grow	present	all costly diamonds				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	want	present	I	much			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot much=Theme
5	go	to-infinitive			there		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	think speech: other	present	I			of rock	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not help	can	I				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
8	is not said to happen	gerund	I not said here			sorrowful property	tree rules
9	reach	can		rock		the birds and the flies obl	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=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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