Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 39

‘Not wretch enough yet!’ said the sparrow; and perching upon the third horse, she began to peck him too.

Who acts: wretch · What happens: say, perch, begin, peck · To what, where: sparrow, harm · 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 (wretch), 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	_	3 wretch	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 wretch	advmod
3	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 yet	advmod
5	yet	yet	ADV	_	3 wretch	advmod
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 wretch	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wretch	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sparrow	det
10	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 perching	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 perching	cc
13	perching	perch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 horse	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 horse	det
16	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 horse	amod
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 perching	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 began	nsubj
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 peck	mark
22	peck	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 peck	obj
24	too	too	ADV	_	22 peck	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	wretch	the sparrow		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sparrow=Topic
2	perch	gerund	wretch not said here		upon the third horse	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon horse=Location
3	begin	past	wretch			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	peck	to-infinitive	wretch not said here	harm		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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