Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 11

‘I have had plenty of meat,’ answered he, ‘but I should like to have a piece of bread to eat after it.’

Who acts: I, dog · What happens: have, answer, like, eat · To what, where: plenty, piece

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dog), 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	_	4 had	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 had	aux
4	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 meat	case
7	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plenty	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	parataxis
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 he	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 he	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 like	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 like	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 like	aux
17	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 answered	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 have	mark
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 like	xcomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 piece	det
21	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 bread	case
23	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 piece	nmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 eat	mark
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 piece	acl
26	after	after	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 eat	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	present · perfect	I	plenty of meat		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
2	answer speech: assert	past	dog			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	like	should	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	a piece of bread		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient
5	eat	to-infinitive	I not said here	a piece of bread not said here	after bread	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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