Grimms' Fairy Tales, Old Sultan, sentence 4

‘But what can we do with him?’ said the shepherd, ‘he has not a tooth in his head, and the thieves don’t care for him at all; to be sure he has served us, but then he did it to earn his livelihood; tomorrow shall be his last day, depend upon it.’

Who acts: we, shepherd, thieves, tomorrow · What happens: do, say, have, not care, be, serve · To what, where: shepherd, tooth, head, all, us, livelihood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Old Sultan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, shepherd, thieves, tomorrow), 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	_	6 do	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 do	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shepherd	det
13	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 has	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 has	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 has	nsubj
17	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 tooth	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 tooth	det
20	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 has	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 head	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tooth	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 care	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 care	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 thieves	det
27	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 care	nsubj
28	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 care	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 care	advmod
30	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 has	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 care	obl
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 all	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 care	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 sure	punct
36	to	to	PART	_	38 sure	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 sure	cop
38	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	parataxis
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 served	nsubj
40	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 served	aux
41	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 sure	ccomp
42	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 served	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 did	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 did	cc
45	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 did	advmod
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 did	nsubj
47	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 sure	parataxis
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 did	obj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 earn	mark
50	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 did	advcl
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 livelihood	nmod:poss
52	livelihood	livelihood	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 earn	obj
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	59 day	punct
54	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 day	nsubj
55	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 day	aux
56	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	59 day	cop
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 day	nmod:poss
58	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 day	amod
59	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	parataxis
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 depend	punct
61	depend	depend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	59 day	parataxis
62	upon	upon	ADP	_	63 it	case
63	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 depend	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	59 day	punct
65	’	'	PUNCT	_	59 day	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	we				with shepherd	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past		the shepherd				tree rules
3	have	present	shepherd	a tooth	shepherd's head			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
4	not care	present · do-support	the thieves		all		for shepherd	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for he=Theme
5	is	to-infinitive					sure property	tree rules
6	serve	present · perfect	shepherd	us				vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Attribute
7	do	past	shepherd	head		then		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
8	earn	to-infinitive	shepherd not said here	shepherd's livelihood				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent livelihood=Theme
9	is a	shall	tomorrow	shepherd's last day				tree rules
10	depend	infinitive					upon livelihood	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=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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