Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 51

The little bit of food that we people get is immediately burnt up with heavy logs; we do not swallow so much as you coarse, greedy folk.

Who acts: we · What happens: get, burnt up, not swallow · To what, where: food, little bit, coarse greedy folk

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bit	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bit	amod
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 burnt	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	nmod
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 get	obj
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 get	nsubj
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 we	nmod:unmarked
9	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 food	acl:relcl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 burnt	aux:pass
11	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	12 burnt	advmod
12	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 burnt	compound:prt
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 logs	case
15	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 logs	amod
16	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 burnt	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 swallow	punct
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 swallow	nsubj
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 swallow	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 swallow	advmod
21	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 burnt	conj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 much	advmod
23	much	much	ADV	_	21 swallow	advmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 coarse	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 coarse	nsubj
26	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 folk	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 coarse	punct
28	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 folk	amod
29	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 swallow	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 burnt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	present	we	food		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	burnt up	present · passive		the little bit of food	with heavy logs; immediately property	tree rules
3	not swallow	present · do-support	we	coarse greedy folk		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=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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