Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 22

But the carter, grumbling to himself, ‘You make it the worse for me, indeed! what can you do?’ cracked his whip, and drove his cart over the poor dog, so that the wheels crushed him to death.

Who acts: carter, you, wheels · What happens: grumble, make, do, crack, drive, crush · To what, where: dog, stop, whip, cart

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 (carter, you, wheels), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 make	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 carter	det
3	carter	carter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grumbling	punct
5	grumbling	grumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 carter	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 grumbling	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
10	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 make	nsubj
11	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 make	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 worse	det
14	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 make	xcomp
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 worse	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct
18	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	23 do	advmod
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 indeed	punct
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 do	obj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 do	aux
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 do	nsubj
23	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 make	conj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 cracked	punct
26	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 make	parataxis
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 whip	nmod:poss
28	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cracked	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 drove	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 drove	cc
31	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 cracked	conj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 cart	nmod:poss
33	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 drove	obj
34	over	over	ADP	_	37 dog	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 dog	det
36	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 dog	amod
37	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 drove	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 crushed	punct
39	so	so	ADV	_	43 crushed	advmod
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 crushed	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 wheels	det
42	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 crushed	nsubj
43	crushed	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 cracked	conj
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 crushed	obj
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 death	case
46	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 crushed	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	grumble speech: other	gerund	the carter not said here		dog		vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
2	make	present	the carter	stop		bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	do	can	you			indeed property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	crack	past		dog's whip			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whip=Theme
5	drive	past		dog's cart		over the poor dog	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme cart=Trajectory
6	crush	past	the wheels	dog		to death result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to death=Result

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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