Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 65

Some days after, the miller came to him and told him that the old ass was dead; ‘The other two,’ said he, ‘are alive and eat, but are so sorrowful that they cannot last long.’

Who acts: days, old ass, other two, stripes · What happens: come, tell, be, say, eat, not last · To what, where: huntsman · 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 (days, old ass, other two, stripes), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 days	det
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
3	after	after	ADV	_	2 days	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 days	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 miller	det
6	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 dead	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ass	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ass	amod
16	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dead	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 dead	cop
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 told	advcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
21	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 two	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 two	amod
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 said	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 two	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 two	punct
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 alive	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 alive	punct
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 alive	cop
31	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 said	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 eat	cc
33	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 alive	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 sorrowful	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 sorrowful	cc
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 sorrowful	cop
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 sorrowful	advmod
38	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 came	conj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 last	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 last	nsubj
41	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 last	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 last	advmod
43	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 sorrowful	advcl
44	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 last	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	some days	huntsman		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	some days not said here	huntsman		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is	past	the old ass		dead property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the other two			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present			alive property	tree rules
6	eat	present				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	some days not said here		sorrowful property	tree rules
8	not last	can	stripes = stripe		long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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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