Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 44

‘Alas!’ said he to his wife, ‘what ill luck has befallen me!--my wine is all spilt, and my horses all three dead.’

Who acts: harm, wine · What happens: say, befall, be · To what, where: wife, ill luck · 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 (harm, wine), 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	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 wife	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 befallen	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 befallen	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 befallen	obj
13	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 luck	amod
14	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 befallen	nsubj:pass
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 befallen	aux
16	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 befallen	obj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 befallen	punct
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 spilt	punct
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wine	nmod:poss
21	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spilt	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 spilt	cop
23	all	all	ADV	_	24 spilt	advmod
24	spilt	spilt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 befallen	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dead	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 dead	cc
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 horses	nmod:poss
28	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 dead	nsubj
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 three	det
30	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 dead	nummod
31	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	harm		harm's wife		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
2	befall	present · perfect · passive		ill luck			tree rules
3	is	present	my wine			all, spilt property	tree rules

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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