Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 47

‘Unlucky wretch that I am!’ cried the carter; for he saw that the corn was almost all gone.

Who acts: Unlucky wretch, husband, corn · What happens: cry, see, be · To what, where: carter · 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 (Unlucky wretch, husband, corn), 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	Unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wretch	amod
3	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 am	obj
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 am	nsubj
6	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wretch	acl:relcl
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 wretch	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wretch	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 carter	det
11	carter	carter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 saw	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 gone	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 corn	det
18	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gone	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 gone	cop
20	almost	almost	ADV	_	21 all	advmod
21	all	all	ADV	_	22 gone	advmod
22	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 saw	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Unlucky wretch	the carter		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carter=Topic
2	see	past	husband			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	the corn		all, gone 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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