Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 47

‘I am,’ said he, ‘a messenger sent by the king to find the finest salad that grows under the sun. I have been lucky enough to find it, and have brought it with me; but the heat of the sun scorches so that it begins to wither, and I don’t know that I can carry it farther.’

Who acts: Countryman, finest salad, I, heat, sun · What happens: say, send, find, grow, be, bring · To what, where: messenger, finest salad, sun., salad, heat · 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 (Countryman, finest salad, I, heat), 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	_	3 am	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 am	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 am	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 am	punct
6	said	say	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	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 messenger	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 messenger	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 messenger	det
11	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
12	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 messenger	acl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 king	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 find	mark
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sent	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 salad	det
19	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 salad	amod
20	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 grows	nsubj
22	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 salad	acl:relcl
23	under	under	ADP	_	25 sun.	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sun.	det
25	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 grows	obl
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 lucky	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 lucky	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 lucky	cop
29	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sun.	acl:relcl
30	enough	enough	ADV	_	29 lucky	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 find	mark
32	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 lucky	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 find	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 brought	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 brought	cc
36	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 brought	aux
37	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 brought	obj
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 me	case
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 brought	obl
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 scorches	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 scorches	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 heat	det
44	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 scorches	nsubj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 sun	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 sun	det
47	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 heat	nmod
48	scorches	scorch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
49	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	52 begins	mark
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 so	fixed
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 begins	nsubj
52	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 scorches	ccomp
53	to	to	PART	_	54 wither	mark
54	wither	wither	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 begins	xcomp
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 know	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 know	cc
57	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	60 know	nsubj
58	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	60 know	aux
59	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	60 know	advmod
60	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 scorches	conj
61	that	that	SCONJ	_	64 carry	mark
62	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	64 carry	nsubj
63	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 carry	aux
64	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 know	advcl
65	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 carry	obj
66	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	64 carry	advmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 scorches	punct
68	’	'	PUNCT	_	48 scorches	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Countryman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	send	participle		a messenger not said here		by the king	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	find	to-infinitive		the finest salad			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salad=Topic
4	grow	present	the finest salad		the sun.		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under sun.=Location
5	is	present · perfect	I	the sun. not said here		enough, lucky property	tree rules
6	find	to-infinitive	I not said here	salad			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
7	bring	present · perfect	Countryman not said here	salad		with me	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	scorch	present	the heat of the sun				tree rules
9	begin	present	heat				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	wither	to-infinitive	heat not said here				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
11	not know	present · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
12	carry	can	I	heat		far property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
13	heat		the sun				nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

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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