Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 47
‘See now,’ said the fiddler, ‘you are good for nothing; you can do no work: what a bargain I have got!
Who acts: you, I · What happens: see, say, be, do, get · To what, where: fiddler, work, bargain · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 2 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 See | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fiddler | det |
| 8 | fiddler | fiddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 good | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 good | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 good | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 good | cop |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | parataxis |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 nothing | case |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 good | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 work | det |
| 21 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | obj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 what | punct |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 said | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bargain | det |
| 25 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 what | nsubj |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 got | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 got | aux |
| 28 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 bargain | acl:relcl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the fiddler | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | you | for nothing; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | can | you | no work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | get | present · perfect | I | a bargain not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bargain=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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