Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 42

‘Not wretch enough yet!’ answered the sparrow as she flew away; ‘now will I plague and punish thee at thy own house.’

Who acts: wretch, I · What happens: answer, fly away, plague, punish · To what, where: sparrow, thee, own house

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, 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	_	3 wretch	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 wretch	advmod
3	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	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	answered	answer	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 answered	obj
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 flew	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 flew	nsubj
13	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 answered	advcl
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 flew	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 plague	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 plague	punct
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 plague	advmod
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 plague	aux
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 plague	nsubj
20	plague	plague	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 answered	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 punish	cc
22	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 plague	conj
23	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 punish	obj
24	at	at	ADP	_	27 house	case
25	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 house	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 house	amod
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 punish	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 plague	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 plague	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	wretch	the sparrow				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sparrow=Eventuality
2	fly away	past	wretch				away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	plague	future	I			now		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	punish	infinitive	I not said here	thee	thy own house			vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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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