Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 16

So they both went out upon the high road; but as the weather was warm, they had not gone far before the dog said, ‘I am very much tired--I should like to take a nap.’

Who acts: rolls, weather, dog, I · What happens: go out, be, not go, say, like, take · To what, where: nap · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (rolls, weather, dog, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 road	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 road	amod
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 gone	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 gone	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 warm	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 weather	det
14	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 warm	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 warm	cop
16	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gone	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 warm	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gone	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 gone	advmod
21	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 went	parataxis
22	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 said	advmod
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 said	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dog	det
25	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tired	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 tired	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 tired	nsubj
30	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 tired	cop
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 much	advmod
32	much	much	ADV	_	33 tired	advmod
33	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 said	ccomp
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 like	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 like	nsubj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 like	aux
37	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 tired	advcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 take	mark
39	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 like	xcomp
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 nap	det
41	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 take	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go out	past	rolls = roll		upon the high road; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the weather		warm property	tree rules
3	not go	past · perfect	rolls = roll			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the dog		far property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	I		tired property	tree rules
6	like	should	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	a nap		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Theme

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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