Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 42

Thus they lived for two days: and when they had eaten up all there was in the cottage, the man said, ‘Wife, we can’t go on thus, spending money and earning nothing.

Who acts: servants, man, we · What happens: live, eat up, be, say, not go on, spend · To what, where: cottage, Wife, money, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (servants, man, we), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	3 lived	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 days	nummod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 eaten	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 eaten	cc
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 eaten	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 eaten	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 eaten	aux
12	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 lived	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 eaten	compound:prt
14	all	all	ADV	_	16 was	advmod
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 was	expl
16	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 eaten	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 cottage	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cottage	det
19	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 was	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Wife	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 Wife	punct
26	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 go	punct
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 go	nsubj
29	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 go	aux
30	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 go	advmod
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
32	on	on	ADV	_	31 go	advmod
33	thus	thus	ADV	_	31 go	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 spending	punct
35	spending	spend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 go	advcl
36	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 spending	obj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 earning	cc
38	earning	earn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 spending	conj
39	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	38 earning	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	servants = servant			day	thus property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat up	past · perfect	servants = servant					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be	past	servants = servant not said here		the cottage; there		all property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=Location
4	say speech: assert	past	the man	Wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not go on	can	we				thus property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	spend	gerund	we not said here	money				vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
7	earn	gerund	we not said here	nothing				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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