Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 31

‘Ah! wretch that I am!’ sighed she; ‘why did I not marry King Grisly-beard?’

Who acts: wretch, I · What happens: sigh, not marry · To what, where: city, King

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wretch, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 wretch	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 wretch	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sighed	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 am	obj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 am	nsubj
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wretch	acl:relcl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 wretch	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 wretch	punct
10	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sighed	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 marry	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 marry	punct
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 marry	advmod
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 marry	aux
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 marry	nsubj
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 marry	advmod
18	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sighed	conj
19	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 marry	obj
20	Grisly	grisly	ADV	_	22 beard	advmod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Grisly	punct
22	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 marry	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 sighed	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sigh	past	wretch	city					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	not marry	past · do-support	I	King				beard obl	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient

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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