Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 39

Then he looked around him, and said, ‘I wish I had something to eat, if not I shall be worse off than before; for here I see neither apples nor pears, nor any kind of fruits, nothing but vegetables.’

Who acts: cloud, I · What happens: look, say, wish, have, eat, not be · To what, where: something, apples · 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 (cloud, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 looked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	around	around	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wish	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 wish	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 wish	nsubj
12	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wish	ccomp
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 had	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 eat	mark
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 something	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 worse	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 worse	mark
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 worse	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 worse	nsubj
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 worse	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 worse	cop
24	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 wish	parataxis
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 worse	compound:prt
26	than	than	ADP	_	27 before	case
27	before	before	ADV	_	24 worse	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 here	case
30	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 see	obl
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 see	nsubj
32	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
33	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	34 apples	cc:preconj
34	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 see	obj
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	36 pears	cc
36	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 apples	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 kind	punct
38	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	40 kind	cc
39	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	40 kind	det
40	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 see	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 fruits	case
42	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 kind	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 nothing	punct
44	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	40 kind	nmod
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 vegetables	cc
46	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 nothing	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	cloud		then	around huntsman	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	cloud not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wish	present	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	have	past	I	something			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
5	eat	to-infinitive	I not said here	something not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not is a condition, not said to happen	shall	I			bad property	tree rules
7	see	present	I	apples nor pears		any kind of fruits nothing obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus

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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