Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, sentence 5

The coal replied: ‘I fortunately sprang out of the fire, and if I had not escaped by sheer force, my death would have been certain,--I should have been burnt to ashes.’

Who acts: coal, I, death, my · What happens: reply, spring out, not escape, be, burnt, die · To what, where: fire, I

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coal, I, death, my), 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	2 coal	det
2	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 sprang	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 sprang	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 sprang	nsubj
7	fortunately	fortunately	ADV	_	8 sprang	advmod
8	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 replied	parataxis
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 fire	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 fire	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sprang	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 certain	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 certain	cc
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 escaped	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 escaped	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 escaped	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 escaped	advmod
19	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 certain	advcl
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 force	case
21	sheer	sheer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 force	amod
22	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 escaped	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 escaped	punct
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 death	nmod:poss
25	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 certain	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 certain	aux
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 certain	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 certain	cop
29	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sprang	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 burnt	punct
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	36 burnt	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 burnt	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 burnt	aux
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 burnt	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 burnt	aux:pass
36	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 certain	parataxis
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 ashes	case
38	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 burnt	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the coal			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spring out	past	I	the fire	fortunately property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location fire=Theme
3	not escape a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I		by sheer force	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	would · perfect	my death		certain property	tree rules
5	burnt	should · perfect · passive		I	to ashes	tree rules
6	die		my			nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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