Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 4

‘Because,’ said the dog, ‘I am very very hungry, and have nothing to eat.’

Who acts: I · What happens: say, be, have, eat · To what, where: dog, nothing · 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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 said	mark
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Because	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hungry	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 hungry	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 hungry	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 hungry	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	14 hungry	advmod
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 hungry	advmod
14	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 have	cc
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 have	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 eat	mark
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 nothing	acl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the dog		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dog=Topic
2	is	present	I		hungry property	tree rules
3	have	present		nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	eat	to-infinitive		nothing not said here		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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