Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 36

‘It’s not worth the trouble,’ said the third; ‘let him live, he’ll go climbing higher up the mountain, and some cloud will come rolling and carry him away.’

Who acts: worm, sleep, cloud · What happens: not be, say, let, live, go, climb · To what, where: third, sleep, mountain · 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 (worm, sleep, cloud), 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 worth	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 worth	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worth	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 worth	advmod
5	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trouble	det
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worth	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 worth	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 worth	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 worth	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 third	det
12	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
15	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 worth	parataxis
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
20	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 go	aux
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	conj
22	climbing	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 go	xcomp
23	higher	high	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 climbing	advmod
24	up	up	ADP	_	26 mountain	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mountain	det
26	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 climbing	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 come	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 come	cc
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 cloud	det
30	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 come	aux
32	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	conj
33	rolling	rolling	ADV	_	32 come	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 carry	cc
35	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 come	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 carry	obj
37	away	away	ADV	_	35 carry	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 worth	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 worth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	worm			worth property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the third			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent third=Topic
3	let	infinitive		sleep			tree rules
4	live	infinitive	sleep not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	future	sleep				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	climb	gerund	sleep not said here		the mountain	high property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up mountain=Trajectory
7	come	future	some cloud			rolling property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	carry away	infinitive	some cloud not said here	sleep		away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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